Silver Spur Saloon

Swedish stone mason Lawrence Olson constructed this two-story building in 1886 for brothers R.M. and B.S. Snead to house the Silver Spur Saloon. The building was sold after R.M. Snead's death in 1911 and later served as a hardware store and grocery. It is the oldest extant commercial building in the community, with a main façade of cut sandstone quarried from local ranch land, arched windows and keystones, a belt course and corbels of limestone, and side and rear load-bearing walls of rubble stone. Metal threshold plates are inscribed with the Snead Brothers' names.

Roanoke, Texas · United States