Chapter 01
1998: the orchard gives out
The land was a peach orchard for sixty years until a late freeze and a dry decade finished it off. The Behrends family sold it with one condition: keep the oldest pecans standing. We kept every one.
Our story
Our story
From a played-out peach orchard to a hundred and eighteen front porches.
Our story
How a peach orchard became a neighborhood
Chapter 02
2006: the first twelve Sunday cottages
Twelve cottages and a dining room opened in the spring of 2006. The first residents were three retired teachers from Austin, a rancher from Mason and a couple who had honeymooned on Main Street in 1961.
Chapter 03
2013: the Terrace apartments
Residents asked for apartments for neighbors who didn't want a yard at all. We built sixty-four, with elevators, balconies and a pool that stays open year-round.
Chapter 04
Today: a hundred and eighteen porches
We still have no buy-in, still pour local wine on Thursdays and still pick a few bushels of peaches off the five trees we replanted. Annaliese says that's the whole business plan.
- 22acres of pecan, oak and wildflower meadow
- 2006the year the first Sunday cottages opened
- 118cottages and apartments
- 1.8miles to the Marktplatz
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Hill Country readers' poll · Best independent living
- Regional senior living survey · Top dining program
- Gillespie County Chamber · Business of the year finalist
- Texas hospitality association · Service award
- Local wildflower society · Garden of the season
- Area employers survey · Great place to work
- Community volunteers council · Partner of the year
Come for lunch. Stay for the sunset.
Call or text Annaliese, or book online. Spring tours come with bluebonnets at no extra charge.