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BADGER HOUSE Over the front entrance to this well preserved landmark is a Klished granite slab engraved in six inch letters: B BADGER - 1888 This house is known to oldtimers as the Badger house but to many peopt& in this area it is known as the Granite House. This is one of the oldest houses in Marble Falls, .4 was built on a full city block and still sits on the same full city block. When Capt. Brandt Badger moved his family in covered wagons from Gonzales to Burnet in 1885, he was a partner with Gen. Adam R. Johnson in a general merchandise store. In 1887 Gen. ( Johnson and four associates formed a co any and laid off and sold lots in the town of Marble Falls. Capt. Badger was one of this group, B. Badger bought block 278 in Marble Falls from A. R. Johnson on November 28, 1887. (2) When the state of Texas was rebuilding their capitol in the 1880s and were using granite given by the owners of granite mountain in Burnet County near Marble Falls, the stone being quarried and out by convicts and other labor sent here. The blocks were shipped by rail to Austin, in 1887 Capt. Badger started work on his home, using blocks left from the larger cuttings. It took about a year to complete his house. (4) The Badger family moved into the house in 1888. The walls are 24 inches thick and it has 6 fireplaces that furnished heat on the first and second floors. The original roof (red metal) perhaps copper is still in use on the house in 1974.(5) To Burnet county historians it is acclaimed as the first house built entirely of granite in this central Texas area.(6)