1704 Water Street

This building appears on the 1930 Sanborn map as a free-standing building. Today it is attached to 1700 Water Street and is part of the Edson's Kerrcrafters complex.

A. C. Schreiner sold lots 5 and 6 of block 13 in the Tivy Addition to Thomas Frayne in May 1925.
Then in March 1927 Frayne sold the lots to Thomas C. Staley for $750. Staley was an architect from California and was responsible for remodeling the Dixie Theater. On the 1930 census though he was listed as a proprietor of a filling station at the corner.  In March 1927 Staley began work on a tourist village in Water Street near the intersection of the Medina Road. This building probably went up about that time.The description of the project (10 two-room cottages and later adding a store, apartment house, and lunchroom) does not match what is on this lot in 1930.  It appears from the 1930 Sanborn map that he put up a retail building and perhaps two cottages. These were in addition to the gas station and residence which I blogged about earlier.
When Staley and his wife went to California for several months in 1928 on an architecture job, he rented the "Staley village" and store to G. M. South. One year later South list a small grocery and lunchroom  near Medina Road for sale, probably the same.  The Staleys did eventually return.

The next few years are quiet. Then, in January 1935, the Kerrville Mountain Sun reported that Mr. and Mrs. W. E. James, "formerly of the Tasty Coffee Shop 1704 Water Street" had taken over management of the Kerrville Municipal Golf Course and Dining Room.
Six week later, March 7, 1935, the following appeared in the Kerrville Mountain Sun
"New Restaurant Now Open On Water Street.  A new business enterprise, 'Aunt Jean's' Restaurant and Delicatessen, has been opened at 1704 Water Street by Mrs. W. L. Harcus.  ... The interior ... has been rearranged and redecorated."
In August 1938, Edson's Kerrville Kabinet Shop moved into this building, remembered later as badly neglected. In 1941 the woodworking department moved into the former gas station at 1700 Water Street.  Edson's furniture business has been here ever since.