Listing Details:
- Beautiful 100+ year old building fully restored with exposed brick walls, stained concrete flooring, 15-foot tall bead-board ceilings, with second story open loft and attached apartment. The retail space is on the Main floor of the Building and has 2404 SF that is used as the retail sales area, private office, dressing room, and store rooms. Four Sonos wireless speakers are in the retail area and surround customers with comforting background music while they browse the products in the space.
- There is 1142 SF of paved concrete behind the Apartment that includes three 9-foot-wide dedicated parking spaces for the building tenants. Sloped ADA access to the rear of the Building and Apartment provide easy access when inventory is delivered to the business.
- The Apartment is 680 SF Owner’s Retreat and has a gorgeous kitchen with large deep stainless-steel sink, granite countertops, designer glass front cabinets, designer glass tile backsplash, GE 5-burner Café induction cooktop, Samsung 4-door Flex 22.5 cu ft Stainless Steel French Door Refrigerator with Ice Maker and a large GE Profile double oven. Bamboo flooring is used throughout the entire apartment. Apartment also has a large walk-in closet. There are two bathrooms in the apartment with one-of-a-kind designer shabby chic sink cabinets. One bathroom has an extra-large soaking tub and wall-mounted 4K Samsung 32-inch Smart LED TV. The other bathroom has an extra-large shower. Both bathrooms have touch-free toilets.
- The second-story Loft area is 704 SF and has an open view to the front of the building and has space for a large dining room table, living room area with 2 couches and two easy chairs, and two computer desks. There is a half-bath in the loft area. Double-wide French Doors separate the Loft from the Apartment and can be secured.
- Building and Apartment are very energy efficient with use of LED lighting, 5-Ton 16-SEER Heat Pump and Natural Gas Furnace in the building and the apartment has a 2-Ton 15-SEER Heat Pump. Water Heater is an 80-gallon GE Geospring Hybrid Electric which uses heat pump technology to absorb heat from ambient air and transfer it into water. Apartment walls and flooring encased in spray foam insulation which keeps the building cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
- A 612 SF screened-in garden patio is below the Apartment with a beautiful functional water fountain. Great for outdoor entertaining and cookouts without all the bugs.
- Smarthome technology is used throughout the Building and Apartment and is used to control GE Dimmable Smart Light Switches, Smart Plugs and Door Locks and integration with Amazon Alexa is a snap.
Building History:
Deed records trace back to 1851 when Constant K. Hall, a merchant, sold the property to Charles Wood in 1851. Charles Wood partnered with J. M. Royston, and the two of them sold the property to Moses O. Dimon in 1857. Dimon opened a Dry Goods and Grocery store in a wood frame building on the site. A fire destroyed most of downtown Bastrop in 1861 and the M. O. Dimon building was destroyed in the fire. Dimon decided to cut his losses and sold the lot to Louis Phelps after the fire. Louis Phelps then sold to J.C. Higgins in 1868. J.C. Higgins partnered with C. B. Garwood and operated a mercantile store at this location. There are photos from the late 1800s shows that a new building built after the fire was brick and had a fancy brick façade with the name J.C. Higgins visible on the front. J. C. Higgins who had the new building constructed of brick to comply with the ordinance passed by the city that all buildings would be constructed of brick because of the previous fires in the downtown area.
Ads for the Higgins store are found in the Saturday, September 6, 1873 Bastrop Advertiser. The daughters of J.C. Higgins, Lielah T. Holland and Mary Fairbanks McCall inherited the property in 1907. Carrie C. Higgins sold the property to T. A. Hasler that same year. T. A. Hasler sold the property to L.W. Olive in 1908. L.W. Olive also ran a mercantile store at the same location. Olive’s heirs, Sidney C Olive and Ella Belle Olive, sold the building to Judge Jack Griesenbeck on August 18, 1973. Jack ran Griesenbeck’s Furniture Store and used the building to store mattresses. Jack Griesenbeck sold the property to Mary Ogden Schultz on June 1, 1993. Mary Odgen Schultz converted the building to a private residence and shared the building with Joann Schaefer. Mary Odgen Shultz and Joann Schaefer replaced the existing flat roof with a peaked metal roof and replaced the pier and beam foundation with a cement slab. Richard and Anne Smarzik purchased the building on February 6, 2015 from the heirs of Schultz and Schaefer and renovated the building’s façade and interior.
Relics Jewelry and Gift Emporium leases the main floor of the building and has been in operation since October 2, 2015. The owners of Relics live above the retail space in the Loft and Owner's Retreat.
