J. H. Remschel House

Julius Heinrich Remschel, born on September 17, 1835, in Berlin, Germany, immigrated to the United States around 1855 and settled in Indianola, Texas. On February 8, 1860, shortly before joining the Confederacy, he married Clementine Eleanor DeMonet of Woodville, Mississippi. The couple had ten children. Julius served as a bugler in Company K, 33rd Texas Cavalry, participating in battles at Pleasant Hill, Mansfield, and Yellow Bayou. After the Civil War, he returned to Indianola and opened his first lumber yard. Following a devastating hurricane in 1875, the family moved to Charco, near Goliad, where they raised sheep for five years before relocating to Cuero around 1880, where Julius established another lumber yard. Eleanor passed away on July 19, 1880, in Boerne, Texas.

In 1882, with the arrival of the railroad, Julius moved to Gonzales and opened Remschel Brothers Lumber Company. In November 1883, he purchased property and began building his Victorian-style home, completing it in 1884.

In 1887, Julius traveled to Germany and met his future wife, Ella Mettelstadt. The following spring, he secretly traveled to Galveston to meet her ship from Germany. They married on May 6, 1888, and returned to this home, where Julius continued to run the lumber business until his death on May 13, 1894. Julius and Eleanor are buried in the Gonzales City Cemetery.

The Remschel family operated the lumber yard for 111 years before it closed in 1993.

The house underwent significant remodeling in the 1930s or 1940s, resulting in its current form.