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Chrissy’s Homestyle Bakery (Cassaday Grey Granite Company Office Building)

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1926, Roy L. Thomas. 501 Bessemer Ave.

Businessman Tye Yates Hill built this diminutive Mission-styled building to house the offices of a company dealing with a rare deposit of high-quality granite. The Alamo parapet on the facade and the two-stage bell-cote ( espadaña), modeled after San Juan Capistrano, are an implicit architectural lesson in Texas history at a time when the Californian mission had displaced the authentic Spanish Colonial heritage as an architectural precedent in Texas.

The block of buildings on Bessemer Avenue to the north of the Cassaday Building illustrate Llano’s growth north of the river, stimulated by the construction there of the railroad.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

The Badu House Bed and Breakfast (Badu Building, First National Bank)
Llano Visitor Center, Chamber of Commerce, Railroad Museum (Austin and Northwestern Railroad Depot)
Llano County Jail
Buttery Company (The Southern Hotel)
Haynie Block (Haynie Hotel and Home National Bank Building)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Chrissy’s Homestyle Bakery (Cassaday Grey Granite Company Office Building)", [Llano, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LL10.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 272-272.

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