Green Pastures (Austin, Texas)
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| Green Pastures | |
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| (U.S. National Register of Historic Places) | |
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| Location: | Austin, Texas, USA |
| Built/Founded: | 1895 |
| Added to NRHP: | September 27, 1980 |
Green Pastures is a historic plantation home housing a restaurant of the same name in south Austin, Texas. Completed in 1895 by local minister E.W. Herndon, the house sat on 23 acres bordering a wooded area to the south. It was home to a number of families over the years. The Green Pastures restaurant opened in the building in 1946, serving a range of comfort food, and was notable for serving to customers of all races, 18 years before other establishments in Austin were desegregated by law.
The building is located at 811 W Live Oak Avenue. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
[edit] Texas Historical Commission Marker Text
This Victorian home, located on the 1835 Isaac Decker grant, was built in 1894-95 by Dr. E. W. Herndon and sold in 1912 to Judge W. W. Burnett. It became the residence in 1916 of lawyer Henry Faulk (1867-1939), his wife Martha (Miner) (1878-1957), and their children, Hamilton, Martha, Mary, John Henry, and Texana. Naming the home "Green Pastures," Mary and her Husband Chester Koock opened it for public dining in 1946. It was purchased in 1969 by their son Ken Koock and Lee Buslett. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1976[1]
