The Badger Building

Completed about 1883, this two-story limestone commercial building was built on the Courthouse Square for local financier Dr. W. H. Westfall and Captain Brandt Badger, a Georgia native born in 1839 who had served in the Confederate Army from Texas during the Civil War. Badger and his son Walter operated a wholesale and retail drugstore on the ground floor, while the second floor, divided into five rooms, was leased as office space. Badger sold the business in 1885 and later, with Adam R. Johnson, helped establish the nearby town of Marble Falls. For the latter part of the nineteenth century the building housed a hardware store. In 1903 Burnet National Bank moved into the building and remained there until it closed because of the economic depression of the 1930s. The building was also used by the State Parks Board, the Burnet Rural Telephone Company, the Farm Loan Association, doctors, lawyers, and various businesses. From 1948 to 1959 it served as the Burnet Post Office, and in 1966 it was occupied by the Youth and Community Center.

Burnet, Texas · United States