Built 1861 NRHP Reference # 77001457 Designated RTHL 1976 Area 2,000 m² | Built by Brinkmann,Otto RTHL # 3882 Opened 1861 Added to NRHP 12 December 1977 | |
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Location 701 High St., Comfort, Texas | ||
The Otto Brinkmann House in Comfort, Texas, United States, was built in 1861 by Otto Brinkman. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
It is a one-story two-room house of fachwerk construction. It is a German method of timber framing with diagonal bracing members at corners and openings. It includes 6 inches (150 mm) by 6 inches (150 mm) cypress corner posts and top plates, with other timbers of 4 inches (100 mm) by 4 inches (100 mm) size. Timbers are joined by mortise and tenon joints. Timbers on its front facade are exposed. The house was modified in 1899 by addition of a framed lean-to along its rear facade.
It was built, and lived in, by German immigrant carpenter Otto Brinkman, who was born in Hoexter, Westphalia in 1932. He completed an apprenticeship to a cabinet-maker in Germany before coming to the U.S. in 1852.