Reinhardt Homestead
New Caney, Montgomery County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Conrad Reinhardt (1886-1969) bought this property in 1918 and established this homestead where he and his wife, Lillie Bell Freeman (1894-1970), raised a family and lived until their deaths. Built about 1920 of heart of pine and magnolia lumber cut from the property's trees, the house reflects the bungalow style in its hipped roof and three-bay porch with tapered columns on brick piers. A garage, two barns, and three shed structures complete the complex. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1991
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
In 1918 Conrad Reinhardt bought this East Texas land and, around 1920, raised a bungalow-style farmhouse from heart-pine and magnolia timber cut on the property itself. He and his wife Lillie Bell Freeman built a family homestead here — house, garage, barns, and sheds — and lived out their lives on the place. The hipped roof and tapered-column porch mark it as a classic early-20th-century Texas farmhouse.
Why it matters
Homesteads like the Reinhardts' show how rural Texas families built lasting lives directly from the land around them, and it survives as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
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Related people
- · Conrad Reinhardt
- · Lillie Bell Freeman
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