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Visit Granbury’s own full production winery on the historic Granbury Square. Our winery and gift shop is located right in the heart of historical Granbury, Texas. Whether you are new to wine or a connoisseur, our mission is to create an inviting environment where visitors and members of our community have a place to enjoy learning about wine and the wine process. As a neighborhood friendly establishment, we’re aim to bring friends and community together through our love of wine.

Texas Historic Landmark Marker: Marker Number 2375; A cabin-dotted Woodland in 1870, this square soon had buildings of stone quarried less than a mile away. Investor John D. Baker built this structure in 1882 and in 1890 sold it to saloonkeepers Aston and Landers. Extensive repairs were made in 1891, after a fire in this and neighbor buildings. By 1895, ex-county clerk J.R. Morris had a hardware and tin shop here. Lon Morris, a widely-known lawyer and college benefactor, had his offices on the second floor.

The photo on the below shows the building is used as the Haralan & LeMaster Dry Goods store, the photo taken between 1898 and 1910.

Later, in the mid 1900’s, the housed a boxing club. It was owned for many years by members of the Nutt family. The photo shows the building in 1974, where is served as gas and oil offices, insurance, travel and interior designer’s offices. Kay Davis purchased the building in 1989 or 1990. Ms. Davis ran the Chatterbox dress shop below and used the upstairs as her private residence. She remodeled and removed an elevator, replacing it with the existing stairs. While remodeling in the 1990’s, Kay Davis reports that the contractor discovered this set of stairs which leads back down to the current winery. In 2003, D’Vine Wine previous owners, Karen and Butch Barton (from Pecan Plantation) and Charlene and Ross Meriwether, rented the space for D’Vine Wine from Kay Davis and renovated the dress shop to create an on-site winery. They removed 7 layers of flooring to reveal the beautiful hardwood floors. In 2006, Dr. Tony Hedges and wife Diane Hedges, along with partner Josh Winters, purchased the winery business. Shortly thereafter, Tony and Diane Hedges purchased the building from Kay Davis and after much thought, decided to keep the upstairs intact as one unit. In 2008, Ron Vanmeter also joined them as a partner in the winery business.

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Texas Historic Landmark Marker: Marker Number 6250; Marker Text: First unit in structure was built 1883–year private bank was opened by D.C. Cogdell and John H. Traylor. National Bank charter was issued in 1887 and second structural unit was later acquired. Besides the organizers, officials have included Jeff Nutt (1900-32); C.H. Bencini (1935-36); Jake Green (1936-48); Henry Zweifel (1929-70); John S. Luton (1952- ). The hand-hewn native limestone structure is a good example of Victorian commercial building. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1972

History of the Business:

First National Bank was built in 1883 as a private bank by D.C. Cogdell and John H. Traylor It was chartered in 1887 by Dan Cogdell, John Traylor, E.A. Hannaford, Jess Baker and James H. Doyle.

While the early years of the Bank’s existence were economically prosperous for the area, the Great Depression and droughts of the 1930’s would soon have a negative impact on the community. However, First National Bank persevered through this time and gave the community a sense of hope.  We even assumed the accounts of the City National Bank as it fell victim to the times, saving many Granbury residents their hard earned money.

First National Bank continued to grow through the years and serve the community wherever needed, becoming a pillar of strength to the area. During World War II the Bank’s President, Jake Green, served as the chairman of the War Bond Drive, helping accumulate funds for the effort. During the 1960’s the Bank’s Presidents, Henry Zweifel and John S. Luton, as well as Director Norma Crawford, worked hard to bring the damming of the Brazos River to form Lake Granbury, which has had an enormous impact on Hood County. Mrs. Crawford also led the drive to bring renovation to Granbury’s historical square, which is a strong tourist attraction still today.

By the late 1980’s, the Bank began to branch out and provide the community with more convenient locations.  Today there are six First National Bank locations in Hood County, helping provide a major source of employment and economic activity for the area. In 2017 the bank is set to open its first full service branch outside of Hood County with our Nolan River Banking Center in Cleburne, TX.

As in the beginning, First National Bank is still a locally owned community bank with its focus on serving the community.  While adapting and staying up to date with modern day technologies has helped First National Bank persevere through the years, our real secret to success has been our strong integrity and honesty in our banking relationships, and our continued service to Hood, Johnson, and surrounding areas.  If you want friendly, personal, comfortable banking, stop by and visit any one of First National’s offices, where bankers treat customers like family, helping in any way we can, as we have done since 1887.

By 1893, the Sanborn map of Granbury shows the building next door has become a stone structure.

The Victorian commercial structure on the northwest corner of the square was the original bank building. The photo below shows he bank in the early 1930s.  Notice the wooden sidewalks on Houston Street. In 1952, the First National Bank expanded into the second building, and in its third building in 1970s, originally using this building as a drive-through bank (see photo below). The First National Bank of Granbury has remained in business in this location since 1887. Notice the elaborate pressed-tin bracketed cornice above most of the buildings on the north side of the square. This cornice was probably expanded from the bank’s original building in 1891, after a fire damaged the four buildings to the east of the corner building. Also notice the old iron late at the base of the original bank building that still bears the inscription, “Traylor and Cogdell, 1883.”

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Texas Historic Landmark Marker Text: Erected for Jesse and Jacob Nutt, blind brothers who aided in establishing county seat at Granbury. Their first (1866) store had been a 16 by 12 log house with a wagon yard in the rear. This structure of hand-hewn Hood county stone was built in 1893 by local contractor Jim Warren. About 1919 Nutt Hotel–famed for dining room–moved in after “grocery” was remodeled. Building has been occupied by 3 generations of the Nutt Family.

Located directly on the Historic Downtown Square in Granbury, Texas! This one of a kind structure was built of hand-hewn Texas limestone in 1893 by brothers Jacob, Jesse and David Lee Nutt, the Historic Nutt House Hotel occupies the site of their original log mercantile store. It was on this very spot that these forward thinking and industrious brothers Jacob and Jesse both of whom were blind from late childhood, began operating their general store in 1874, originally beginning trade from a tent. David Lee, was the much younger brother of Jacob and Jesse and served as their “eyes” in the mercantile store from the time he was twelve.

In 1879 David and his wife Sudie, built a home only a couple of blocks down the street from the store, where they provided lodging for the hotel suppliers, as they had no other place to stay while visiting Granbury on their business trips. After enjoying many years of hospitality within the Nutts’ own residence, the family decided to convert the open second floor of the then enlarged mercantile building into a hotel. The Nutt House Hotel officially opened in 1910, with ten guest rooms, and two luxurious separate baths for both women and men. This incredible building has served as the “Premier Lodging,” on the Granbury square ever since! This inviting and rustic hotel now features seven uniquely different luxury suites, each with expansive spa-like baths. It also has a Grand Sitting Room for it’s guests to enjoy, and countless original features still remain intact, such as the original Grand Staircase, and the authenticated room key holder from 1910! The gorgeous original doors to the ten rooms are a feast for the eyes as well. This preserved and beloved gem, is the Grand Old Lady of the Granbury square, and joyously continues to warmly welcome folks both far and wide to Granbury, with all of it’s charm and warmth. The Nutt House Hotel encapsulates all the authenticity and ambiance of the past, as well as the customary comforts of the present! Breakfast is provided daily, with the purchase of your room reservation.

This native limestone structure was built in 1907 on the site of an old livery stable by prominent Granbury citizen, Jeff Rylee. Rylee’s parents were early Hood County settlers, arriving in this area in the late 1850’s. Rylee leased this building to the Gordon-Oxford Furniture Company and Undertakers. The firm’s licensed mortician was a woman, Edith Oxford Gordon. The Granbury Masonic Lodge chartered in 1874, purchased this building in the mid-1930s. The Lodge continues to use the building’s second floor as it’s meeting hall. Notice this building’s heavy stone parapet that contains Jeff Rylee’s name and the construction date. There is a patented iron threshold at the entrance bearing Rylee’s name.
This is the building in 1974.

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The small lot where this building now stands was vacant for many years. This building was constructed in the mid 1940s for Herman D. Thomason, who was a partner in the Goforth-Thomason Hardware Store. Thomason was from nearby Tolar and he was a schoolteacher for many years. Thomanson’s daughter said that he had this building constructed because he didn’t like to see empty lots on the Town Square.

The Thomason Building’s first occupant was the Granbury Dress Manufacturing Co., established in 1943. The dress manufacturing company’s sewing machines were located in the lower level of the Masonic Lodge Building next door. After the Thomason Building was completed, the dress manufacturing company used it for storage of dresses and equipment. In 1944, the dress manufacturing company’s payroll was $1,000 per week, and each week its employees churned out 80 dozen “Marcy Lee” dresses. The completed dresses were picked up by large trucks and taken to Dallas, where they were distributed to retailers throughout the country. All of the women who worked at the dress manufacturing company were from Hood County. In October 1944, the Hood County Tablet wrote that “a number of seamstresses were out harvesting the county’s bumper peanut crop, but they planned to return to dress manufacturing in a few weeks.”

Photo courtesy University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Historical Commission

This cut limestone structure was built in 1895 to house the hardware operation of D.O. Baker and J.D. Rylee. The following year, Baker’s brother, Jess, joined the partnership and in 1898 the store became the Baker Hardware Co. Baker and Rile had a well dug inside their hardware store, and they installed a windmill and water tank on the roof, therefore they had their own 1890s water works system.

The first automobiles in Granbury appeared in 1907, registered to a handful of wealthy businessmen. Until the 1920s, very few residents of Granbury owned cars, and roads in the area were virtually impassable. Bur “Highway No. 10” between Granbury and Fort Worth was completed after 1924, and five years later Hood County had 30 miles of paved roadway. In 1929, this building was converted to a gasoline service station by the Transcontinental Oil Company of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Part of the building was removed to provide drive-through auto access, and gasoline pumps were added. From 1930 up to World War II, this was the busiest corner in Granbury. Both the service station and a café added during the 1930s were open 24 hours a day. Today there is a bypass for U.S. Highway 377, but at that time, Pearl Street was the main route through the city.