Wunderlich Farm

What survives of the Wunderlich land is now a working museum. Peter Wunderlich and his wife saved for two years, then bought their first 120 acres from Jacob Theiss for $175 and a $45 horse. In the 1960s the home place passed to Peter II's son Alphonso, a truck farmer, and in 1995 the Klein, Texas Historical Foundation bought the remaining 19 acres. Other buildings have been brought in, among them Catherine Wunderlich's house, the 1882 Hildebrandt House and a Theiss house. As of 2014, every Klein ISD fourth grader came once a year for 1920s living history.

What the plaque says

Wunderlich Farm J. Peter Wunderlich (1828-1864) migrated from Germany to Texas in 1852. He married Maria Hofius and in 1854 bought 120 acres of farmland in Klein in north Harris County. Peter was killed in 1864 at a gunpowder mill he helped operate during the Civil War. Sons Peter and William Wunderlich continued to farm the land. Peter bought 56 acres of land here in 1887, and built this house in 1891 for his new wife Sophie Krimmel. Originally the house contained four rooms, but four more rooms were soon added. The house was occupied by Wunderlich family members until 1995. (1996)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 21 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• The Menil Collection — 22 mi
  John and Dominique de Menil's free museum in Montrose: a grey-sided Renzo Piano building among bungalows, holding antiquities, Surrealism and art of Oceania under natural light.
• Rothko Chapel — 22 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 23 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.

More markers nearby

• Kohrville Community — steps away
• Catherine Wunderlich — steps away
• The Klein Community — 1.6 mi
• Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery — 2.0 mi