Built in 1874 on Austin Street for the John Hynes family and designed by San Antonio architect Viggo Kohler, this longleaf pine house features full-length gallery porches and classical revival elements including square columns, dentils, and brackets. Circuit riding priests from Refugio made it the center of the Catholic community until a church was built in 1889. The house was moved to South Church Street in 1906 and converted into apartments shared by the Brundretts and Sorensons. By 1928 it had again become a single family dwelling for the Ingersoll and then Wren families. In 1958 the Charles Balthrope family bought it as a vacation home, restored and refurbished it after Hurricane Celia, and kept it in their family until 1996.