Sweetie and I have been traveling down to north Texas a bunch lately. We passed the house below four times in Stoneburg, Texas, on the fifth time I told her that I was taking a photo of it on our way back. Stoneburg is so small that even if you don’t blink you might miss it.
It is an old stone building and I think it is beautiful.Surely there should be something on the world wide web about it, right? That is why Al Gore invented the internet, to satisfy our curiosity without actually having to do much work, right?
Well, it is on the web alright, but just photos. No information about what it was although one source says it was a gas station. May be, I don’t know. It is made out of melted glass, old bricks, stones, and locally sourced petrified wood. All of which is cool.
So I didn’t find out much about the building. I think it is great all the same.
It turns out though that Stoneburg, Texas has made the news for other reasons. Most recently it was burned over in a horrific wild fire of 25,000 acres back in 2009. The other reason that Stoneburg made the news is the notorious serial killer Henry Wayne Lucas. He lived for a while at a religious commune near Stoneburg. He confessed and later recanted to killing thousands of people. It was enough of a mess that the then Governor of Texas George W. Bush commuted Lucas’s death sentence to life. He is dead now. If you lived in Texas back in the 80’s as I did you should remember the name. I remember that he confessed to a murder committed near where I lived in Conroe, Texas just north of Houston.
Such a cool building. I’m glad you stopped to snap!
Oh, it was worth the stop on the return trip. Gorgeous!
Fascinating and I too love that old shell of a house … bravo to you for surfing the interwebs for info on it …
What, Bush commuted a death sentence? Boy was that downplayed!
It is an interesting house.
The old building is very cool. I’m surprised there’s not much about it on the internet.
It’s beautiful and that is quite a history of the area, fascinating to read.
Gee, it looks like an old stone homestead, and should have an appropriate story. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
Such a lot of character in that building. If only walls could talk what a story they could tell.
I love old buildings like that.
Great post,very interesting. The building is truly beautiful
Great and interesting post.
What a beautiful old building.
I’m glad you stopped.
Yikes! I’d rather be famous for that pretty little building if I were a town, than for the other story.
What a wonderful stone and glass building. Too bad there wasn’t more info on it. Maybe next time stop in town and ask.
Hope this trip was to see or pick up SPB from camp.
Great post and nice shots to go with.Have a great day!
Shantana
Great looking old structure. I’m sure that it has some stories to tell.
Small towns are just as creepy as big cities if you ask me! My family is from a rural area just outside of Rosston, Texas. They celebrate Sam Bass Days in July because he was an outlaw who used their community as a hideout. I always think it is hilarious that this is the most exciting thing that ever happened there.
what a beautiful world 🙂
Yogi – That’s the perfect fixer-upper for your and Sweetie’s retirement!
Too bad it’s abandoned. I love visiting old towns like this, you’ll never know what interesting things you’ll find.