New Restaurant Coming?

This building just off the square, which used to house Nonna's restaurant, has been vacant for several years now. The new owners have begun renovating it in anticipation of a new tenant.

Looking Better

This house at 403 E. 10th St. has recently been renovated.

Energy-efficient Houses

A second energy-efficient house is going up behind this house at the intersection of Ash and 18th streets.

The Union on 8th

Work has started on transforming this old transmission shop at the intersection of 8th and Myrtle streets into an event center that will be called The Union on 8th.

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Ready to Rent

Today I met the man who has renovated the three small houses on E. 7th Street (see my previous post here) as well as this house behind them. He said the properties are zoned residential, so he has remodeled them to be rental properties. This house is a two-bedroom

house and the houses on E. 7th Street are one-bedroom houses. Two of the houses have already been leased and two are still available. I got a sneak preview of what the insides will look like. The owner opened up the ceilings to expose the original wood in the roof. He is going to put hardwood floors in the bedrooms and living area and the bathrooms and kitchen have been beautifully remodeled with travertine tile.

West of Austin Avenue

These two houses within a block of each other are both undergoing renovations. One is on University Avenue just before Austin Avenue and the other is in the 1000 block of Rock Street. The house on University Avenue has been in need of work for a long time.

The Frank J. Perrin house

This house at 1702 Olive St. is one of the oldest surviving houses in Georgetown. It is believed to have been built around 1880 and is all that remains of a five-acre farmstead that used to be located on the southeast side of town. Frank J. Perrin, who was a circuit rider for the Southwestern Texas Conference of Methodist Churches, purchased the home in 1904. In the 1930s-1950s, some students who attended Southwestern University - including members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity - lived in the house. Some of those students scratched their names onto the chimney on the side of the house. The current owners of the house plan to start some work on it soon.