http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html These images are from Comfort, Texas, where Kate and I visited in December 2005 to find the rooming house, run by Mrs. Ellenberger, where Charlie and French Hoge lived for a year during high school. http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#0 394a099c-c3d4-4799-9669-481f288d7561 http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Stage%20Stop/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Stage%20Stop/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Stage Stop<br/>This is the original structure that became the Meyers Hotel and is now the "Meyers Bed and Breakfast on Cypress Creek".  It was originally a stage stop in the 1860s.  A small wooden house just to the south of the original stone house served as a maternity hospital run by Meyer's wife, a midwife.</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#1 890fff75-d384-426e-a076-b8bb9305cf39 http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Meyer%20Hotel/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Meyer%20Hotel/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Meyer Hotel<br/><br/>Built by Meyer in 1887 when the railroad came to Comfort, this 2-story building  was a hotel, with guest rooms on the upper floor and dining rooms below.</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#2 493822de-eb8f-438a-a954-143e783bdd3d http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Historical%20Plaque/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Historical%20Plaque/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Historical Plaque<br/><br/>This plaque is located on the site of the original Meyer Hotel, and details the history of the complex as a stage stop, hotel, and boarding house.</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#3 b2f73363-f99e-47a7-8c7a-063b3c8032e6 http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Boarding%20House/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Boarding%20House/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Boarding House<br/><br/>In 1920, an additional boarding house was added to the complex and run by Mrs. Julia Ellenberger, a daughter of the Meyer family, from that time up until 1956.  This is most likely where Charlie and French lived.</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#4 436a6a67-c4ef-48be-a32e-656fa474ae63 http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Ellenberger%20House/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Ellenberger%20House/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Ellenberger House<br/><br/>Commemorative plaques detailing the history of the building, an annex to the hotel built in 1920 and operated until 1956.</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#5 19dba4a1-59e5-450f-9f95-195f44491fe1 http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Summer%20Kitchen/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Summer%20Kitchen/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Summer Kitchen<br/><br/>This summer kitchen is built as a screened porch overlooking Cypress Creek.  It is still in use by the Meyer B&amp;B as a picnic area</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#6 e6d1336f-1f40-4beb-9e9e-3f04003ef421 http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Main%20St./thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Main%20St./micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Main St.<br/><br/>A view of Main St. in Comfort TX, which is in the process of reinventing itself as a tourist destination.  Many buildings with Texas Historical Society plaques line the street.  We counted at least 10 antique shops in this small town of 2 streets!</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#7 df01ba79-1972-4831-a8b4-74003c6ebdfa http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Ingenhuett%20Store/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Ingenhuett%20Store/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Ingenhuett Store<br/><br/>This was the first general store on Main St. in Comfort, built by a German immigrant Peter Ingenhuett in 1867.  With an additional, larger annex, it is still in operation today as a general store.  Ingenhuett came to own several businesses and play a prominent civic role in Comfort.</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#8 7165a448-8aba-4731-8af0-8c2d86d14e0a http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Blacksmith%20Shop/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Blacksmith%20Shop/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Blacksmith Shop<br/><br/>An original building on Main St., built in the 1880s as a blacksmith shop.  Most of the residents of Comfort and much of the Hill Country were German immigrants who settled here seeking religious freedom - members of the "Freethinker" movement who advocated a very liberal social agenda with strict separation of church &amp; govt. government.</p></div></div> http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas.html#9 9e111478-d694-4cbe-b1dd-d9863be0f8c7 http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Lunch%20stop/thumb.jpg http://www.stevehoge.com/root/Comfort_Texas_files/Media/Lunch%20stop/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_426_112"><div class="style_1"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Lunch stop<br/><br/>Kate and I stopped for lunch on Main St. during our tour and ate in the shade of the Ingehuett Store. </p></div></div>