Downtown Executive Center

Original look to 325-327 Earl Garrett St.  Courtesy, Joe Herring Jr.

This office building at 325-327 Earl Garrett Street was originally the offices of the Kerrville Daily Times.  The Times moved here from earlier offices a block away.  
On November 18, 1926,  the following notice appeared in the Times.  "We have moved into our new quarters, on Earl Garrett Street, next to Moore and Saner Lumber Co., and most cordially invite the public to call on the Kerrville Times." [Moore & Saner was on the downtown side of the railroad tracks.]  The newspaper offices remained at that location for twenty years.

Then, in late June, 1946, G. Rankin Starkey, owner and publisher of the Kerrville Times, received a permit to erect a commercial building at 325 Earl Garrett at an estimated cost of $13,000. The building became the Times offices. The newspaper remained here until 1981, when it moved to offices on Jefferson Street and this property was sold. 

In 1981 both the Kerrville Mountain Sun and the Kerrville Daily Times reported a flurry of building permits for this property, the most significant being a request from Lucien Freedle in August 1981 for a remodeling in the amount of $6000, and a request for a permit for a rock exterior, cost not reported.  That is when the building received its current look.
In July 1982 this building is referred to as the Downtown Executive Center for the first time.