Gottlieb William Bohls, born in 1878 near this site as the oldest of Heinrich and Julie Schroeder Bohls’ ten children, married Bertha Timmerman in 1906, and in 1911 they bought a 95-acre farm on the Austin-Hutto road, formerly the site of the Carrington Ranch School. They first lived in a small home until this two-story, eight-room house was completed in 1913. After twelve years, G.W. sold the property to his youngest brother, Otto Walter Bohls, Sr., and Otto’s wife, Laura Emma Anna Fuchs. Otto advanced soil conservation on the farm and in the surrounding area as chair of the Travis County Agricultural Adjustment Administration for 13 years, promoting contour farming, cover crops, stock tanks, crop rotation, and new seed varieties that reduced wind and water erosion and helped keep the soil intact during drought. In 1993 the Bohls family deeded the property to the city of Pflugerville to promote and interpret the city’s heritage and culture. The Queen Anne Free Classic style house has a hipped cross-gabled roof with dormer windows and fishscale shingles, along with a wraparound porch, sidelights at the main door, a longleaf pine interior, and cutaway bays with wooden brackets on the front-facing parlor and side-facing dining room. Original outbuildings included a barn, two homes for farm hands, a smokehouse, an outhouse, and a carriage garage. Its original rain-harvesting system, with a 4,000-gallon underground brick-and-concrete cistern and a 2,000-gallon above-ground galvanized tin cistern, provided the home’s only drinking water until 1975.