717 Sidney Baker Street

Also known as the Mittanck house.

On April 8, 1908 Charles Schreiner sold four acres of land on Tchoupitoulas Street (now Sidney Baker Street) to Julius F. and Emma Mittanck.  They then hired Henry Remschel to build a house on the land. They had moved in by the time of the 1910 census.

On November 9, 1915 H. Remschel made a statement that he had been given a note secured by lien, to erect a residence for the Mittancks "on the land described" and that he was now releasing the lien. The debt had been paid.

ca 1988

Julius Mittanck appears in the 1910 census in Kerrville. In 1920 he was in Pleasanton, Atascosa Co., Texas, where he was managing an ice plant, but his wife and children were in McAllen.
Sometime between 1910 and 1920 they rented the house out, first to H. L. Arno, then in September 1922, to E. M. Shirley.  In June 1923 the Mittancks returned to Kerrville and Julius Mittanck went to work for the American Creamery Company. The September 22, 1922 Kerrville Mountain Sun reported, "J. F. Mittanck is a new man on the force in the factory department of the American Creamery Company.  Mr. Mittanck returned to Kerrville three weeks ago after a several years absence spent at McAllen and Pleasanton, where he was engaged in the creamery business."
By 1940 Julius Mittanck was owner operator of a retail grocery company.

The Mittancks owned this house until February 1944 when it was sold to H. J. and Sophie Niehaus.

Today it is a commercial property.