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ZONING CHANGE REVIEW SHEET HLC DATE: PC DATE: October 25, 2021 November 15, 2021 December 14, 2021 CASE NUMBER: C14H-2021-0181 APPLICANT: Historic Landmark Commission HISTORIC NAME: Nalley-Shear-Bremond Warehouse WATERSHED: Waller Creek ADDRESS OF PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE: 301 San Jacinto Street ZONING FROM: CBD to CBD-H SUMMARY STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the proposed zoning change from central business district (CBD) to central business district – Historic Landmark (CBD-H) combining district zoning. QUALIFICATIONS FOR LANDMARK DESIGNATION: Architecture, historical associations, community value. HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION ACTION: October 25, 2021: Initiated historic zoning. November 15, 2021: Recommended historic zoning on the basis of architecture, historical associations, and community value. Vote: 9-0 (Tollett and Wright absent). PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: DEPARTMENT COMMENTS: The building does not appear to be listed, at least with this address, in the Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey (1984). ACTION: ORDINANCE NUMBER: CITY COUNCIL DATE: ORDINANCE READINGS: 1ST 2ND 3RD CASE MANAGER: Steve Sadowsky NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION: Austin Independent School District, Austin Lost and Found Pets, Austin Neighborhoods Council, City of Austin Downtown Commission, Downtown Austin Alliance, Downtown Austin Neighborhood Assn. (DANA), Friends of Austin Neighborhoods, Homeless Neighborhood Association, Neighborhood Empowerment Foundation, Preservation Austin, Red Line Parkway Initiative, SELTexas, Sierra Club, Austin Regional Group PHONE: 512-974-6454 1 of 19B-19 BASIS FOR RECOMMENDATION: Architecture: One-story, rectangular-plan, flat-roofed brick warehouse building with segmental- arched window bays containing metal-framed horizontal lites; each has a segmental arched cast stone lintel and a fixed-sash clerestory transom above with a cast stone segmental-arch and a cast stone lintel; full-width independent metal and wood canopy; modern, metal-framed double-leaf, glazed entry doors; cast stone belt course above the clerestory transoms. The building is a good example of a large warehouse building that typifies rail-side warehouses for wholesale distribution of provisions and commodities during the time that the vast majority of those operations were rail lines. This is a utilitarian building with little architectural flourish, but qualifies for landmark designation under the architectural criterion as a good example of a utilitarian structure with few alterations. Historical Associations: This warehouse building was constructed around 1912 for the Nalley Grocery Company, operated by A.M. Nalley, and later by J. Gordon Wilcox, a prominent wholesale grocery man in town. Nalley Grocery Company remained here until around 1917, when the Shear Company, owned by Mrs. H.H. Shear of Waco, Texas, appears as the owners of the building in Austin city directories. All of these early wholesale grocery distribution warehouses were also coffee roasters, and purveyors of produce. The Shear Company operated out of this building until around 1923, when the building was sold to the John Bremond Company, which was a grocery wholesaler and roaster of high-grade coffee that was sold throughout Texas. The John Bremond Company was one of the, if not the most, prominent wholesale grocery businesses in Austin for many years, supplying grocery stores and restaurants in the city. The company was established in 1847 with a grocery store opened by John Bremond, Sr. John Bremond II, born in Philadelphia in 1841, and who died in Austin in 1928, ran the business established by his father, and expanded the sales territory to the Hill Country, including the cities of Llano, San Saba, New Braunfels, Johnson City, and Fredericksburg to the west, and to Giddings in the east. This building was their Austin warehouse until the company closed in 1957. Food and grocery distributing continued out of this building after the John Bremond Company closed when White Swan, a wholesale institutional grocery company, took over the space. In the late 1970s, the building became a wholesale auto part warehouse, and in the early 2000s, this building was the residence for the cast of MTV’s Real World program. More recently, it has been a restaurant. Will Houston, whose family has owned this building since the time of purchase by John Bremond II in the mid-1920s , sold it to Bremond Partnership in 2005; Will Houston remains as the managing partner and the primary name on the TCAD ownership card for this property today. Wholesale grocery operations were essential to the livelihood of the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, importing foodstuffs into Austin that could not be obtained from local farmers and ranchers. The railroad’s arrival in Austin in the late 19th century was a game-changer for the city, allowing for the importation of a huge 2 of 19B-19 number of manufactured and cultivated items, everything from building materials to fabrics to home furnishings, and food. The railroad transformed Austin from a settlement to a city, and it was firms like Nalley, Shear, and John Bremond that brought the urbanizing influences of foods to the burgeoning city. This building represents a significant chapter in the history of the development of Austin as a city. PARCEL NO.: 0205021604 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 1-4 BLOCK 032 ORIGINAL CITY ESTIMATED ANNUAL TAX ABATEMENT: $615,392 (non-homestead) APPRAISED VALUE: $16,328,021 PRESENT USE: Restaurant CONDITION: Excellent PRESENT OWNERS: 301 SAN JACINTO MANAGER LLC c/o Will Houston, Managing Member 4202 Spicewood Springs Road, Suite 100 Austin, Texas 78759 DATE BUILT: ca. 1912 ALTERATIONS/ADDITIONS: Modifications to windows, awnings. ORIGINAL OWNER(S): Nalley Grocery Company OTHER HISTORICAL DESIGNATIONS: None. 3 of 19B-19LOCATION MAP 301 San Jacinto Boulevard ca. 1912 4 of 19B-19 OCCUPANCY HISTORY 301 San Jacinto Boulevard Austin Automotive Warehouse Wholesale auto parts John Bobbitt, manager Austin Automotive Warehouse Wholesale auto parts Joe Anderson, manager City Directory Research, Austin History Center By City Historic Preservation Office November, 2008 1987 1977 1967 1957 1953 John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters Hale M. Houston, president White Swan (Institutional Foods Company Wholesale groceries W.G. Cullom, manager 5 of 19B-19 1949 1944-45 1941 1937 1935 1932-33 1930-31 1929 1927 1924 1922 1920 1918 John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and roasters of high-grade coffee Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and roasters of high-grade coffee Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and roasters of high-grade coffee Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and roasters of high-grade coffee Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and roasters of high-grade coffee Hale M. Houston, president John Bremond Company Wholesale groceries and roasters of high-grade coffee John Bremond, president Hale M. Houston, vice-president Shear Company Wholesale groceries, produce, and coffee roasters Mrs. H.H. Shear (Waco, Texas), president J.B. Godfrey, manager NOTE: The John Bremond Company was located at 109-13 E. 6th Street. Shear Company Wholesale groceries, produce, and coffee roasters Mrs. H.H. Shear (Waco, Texas), president J.B. Godfrey, manager Shear Company Wholesale groceries, produce, and coffee roasters 6 of 19B-19 Mrs. H.H. Shear (Waco, Texas), president J.B. Godfrey, manager Nalley Grocery Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters J. Gordon Wilcox, president and manager NOTE: The Shear Company is not listed in the directory. Nalley Grocery Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters A.M. Nalley, president and manager Nalley Grocery Company Wholesale groceries and coffee roasters A.M. Nalley, president and manager 1916 1914 1912-13 1910-11 The address is not listed in the directory. NOTE: The Nalley Grocery Company was located at 400-02 Congress Avenue. NOTE: The building was extensively remodeled in 1975. The residents of the MTV series “Real World Austin” lived here during filming in 2004. The building was again remodeled as a restaurant for the current tenant, Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant in 2005. Austin Statesman, January 1, 1912 Austin Statesman, January 2, 1912 Austin American, September 18, 1920 7 of 19B-19 Austin American, September 19, 1920 8 of 19B-19 Christmas greetings from John Bremond Company 9 of 19B-19 Advertisement for John Bremond Coffee Austin American, November 4, 1928 Advertisement for the John Bremond Company Austin American-Statesman 10 of 19B-19 11 of 19B-19A.4 - 12 12 of 19B-19A.4 - 13 13 of 19B-19A.4 - 14 14 of 19B-19A.4 - 15 15 of 19B-19A.4 - 16 16 of 19B-19A.4 - 17 The 1900 Sanborn map shows a house at 302 E. 3rd Street, the site of the current building. 17 of 19B-19A.4 - 18 The 1935 Sanborn map shows the current building as a wholesale grocery warehouse with coffee roasting in the eastern half of the building. The John Bremond Company had its wholesale grocery warehouse and coffee roasting business here from 1924 to 1967/ Note that there was still a two-story residence next to the building at 308 E. 3rd Street at the right of the map. 18 of 19B-1919 of 19B-19