Boerne Main Street
— a limestone street the German settlers laid out and never moved.
Not only on a wall.
Boerne Main Street, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Hauptstrasse, the main street of Boerne, runs through a row of nineteenth-century limestone storefronts in the Hill Country northwest of San Antonio. The town was founded in 1849 by German freethinkers who came down from the failed revolutions in Europe. The Cibolo Creek runs just east of the street. On a weekday afternoon the pace is slow, and the limestone holds the light.
The place, in three passes.
Boerne is the seat of Kendall County, about 31 miles northwest of downtown San Antonio along Interstate 10. The main street is named Hauptstrasse, the German word for main street, and runs roughly a mile through the historic Hill Country Mile district. The town was founded in 1849 as Tusculum by a small colony of German settlers known as the Latin Settlers or Freethinkers, and was renamed Boerne in 1852 for the German political writer Ludwig Börne.
The Hauptstrasse storefronts are built largely of cut limestone quarried from Hill Country outcrops, with the oldest dating to the 1860s. The Kendall Inn, built in 1859 and expanded several times, anchors the south end of the historic district and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ye Kendall Inn, the Dienger Building, and the old Kendall County Courthouse, completed 1870, form the core nineteenth-century block.
The Hill Country Mile is walkable in an hour, with storefronts, a few restaurants, and the Cibolo Creek a block east. Cascade Caverns and Cave Without a Name lie within a 20-minute drive. The Boerne Berges Fest, a Hill Country German festival, runs each Father's Day weekend and has run continuously since 1967. Most shops keep daytime hours and close earlier than they would in larger Texas cities.
