Cassaday Grey Granite Company Office Building
Llano, Llano County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Llano businessman Tye Yates Hill built this structure in 1919 to house the office of the Cassaday Grey Granite Company, so named for the man whose nearby land contained a rare deposit of the high-quality stone. The building's "Alamotif" parapet and arches are features of the mission revival style. After the 1929 stock market crash ruined his granite business, Hill used the building for other purposes. A number of bakeries have occupied this site since 1967. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1993
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Businessman Tye Yates Hill raised this building in 1919 as the office of the Cassaday Grey Granite Company, named for the landowner whose ground held a prized vein of grey stone. Its mission revival styling—an "Alamotif" parapet and rounded arches—dressed up the workaday business of quarrying at the height of Llano's granite boom. The 1929 stock market crash wiped out Hill's granite venture, and the building passed to other uses; since 1967 a succession of bakeries has filled its rooms. It was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1993.
Why it matters
The little office survives as a tangible relic of Llano County's granite economy and of how the Great Depression could topple even a thriving local industry overnight.
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Related people
- · Tye Yates Hill
Related events
- · Stock Market Crash of 1929
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