This two-story commercial building, with its cast-iron and pressed-metal detailing of raised diamonds is very likely the work of Mesker Brothers of St. Louis. The Mesker firm supplied a large number of essentially prefabricated metal facades for commercial buildings in Texas and elsewhere.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Huffman Building", [New Braunfels, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-NB5.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 201-201.
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