Homesite of Albert Paul Kutzer

Kutzer's Boerne voted to incorporate in 1909, with a mayor-alderman government, and set up its independent school district the same year. The town had 950 people in 1914 and did well through the 1920s on tourism and cotton. The Depression nearly ended both: the population fell from about 2,000 in 1928 to 1,117 in 1931 and was only 1,271 in the 1940s. In the 1950s residents began working in San Antonio, and Boerne became a bedroom town; the medical center, the university and Interstate 10 of the 1960s sped that, and by 2000 it had 6,178 people.

What the plaque says

Homesite of Albert Paul Kutzer A native of Kendall County, Albert Paul Kutzer (1871-1925) was the eldest son of German immigrants Reinhold and Pauline (Holzinger) Kutzer. A merchant and gin operator, he became one of Boerne's leading businessman. He also served as mayor from 1915 to 1920, school board president, and organizer of the Old Boerne Commercial Club. Through his public service, he was instrumental in Boerne's early growth. Kutzer and his wife, Lucie Henrietta (Schwethelm) (d. 1965), had their family home here from 1895 to 1923 in a house built for his parents in 1890. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986 Incise on base: Sponsored by First United Methodist Church

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Treue der Union Monument — 17 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Frontier Times Museum — 21 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 22 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.
• Natural Bridge Caverns — 24 mi
  The largest known cavern in Texas, found in 1960 by four college cavers under a ranch family's land, entered beneath a 60-foot limestone bridge and still growing.

More markers nearby

• Staffel Family and the Staffel Store — steps away
• Kendall County — 0.2 mi
• Early Kendall County Jails — 0.2 mi
• German Music in Boerne — 0.3 mi