The Bean and Biscuit

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A photography studio was once at this location and it later became the post office before it burned in 1935. The chemicals residue left in the building caused the fire to consume the building rapidly.

The left structure, a one-story brick commercial building typical of development in the late ‘30s, was built by Robert Fulcher in 1937 and it served as the Post Office. Fulcher built the right structure in 1952 and it housed the Post Office until the current one was built in 1975.

Bean and Biscuit, a restaurant and bakery, is in the 1952 building.

The two buildings have housed various businesses over the years, including the Blanco County News (1952 building), Blanco Chamber of Commerce (1937 building), an appliance shop, real estate office, piece goods and crafts shop, a CPA office, and a florist and gift shop called Good Earth in the early-1980s.

The 1952 building eventually became the Blanco Library. In 1989 the public library board bought the 1937 building from Jim Jones and leased it to a paint store business operated by Johnny Wood. Subsequently the library expanded to include the older building as well. Blanco Library was on the square for 49 years, starting out as one shelf, and grew to use both buildings before moving to its current location at Main and 12th streets in 1999.

The old photograph on the next page shows that a wood frame building housing the Alexander & Speer photography studio once stood on this spot, separated from the drugstore by an alleyway.