Old Lundberg Bakery

Historical marker location:

1006 Congress, Austin, Texas

( 1100 block Congress Ave. Medallion reported missing Nov. 2016.)

Marker installed: 1966

Old Bakery, built 1876 by Chas. Lundberg. Bread then was not sliced or wrapped; children and maids waited with baskets to take home loaves hot from the oven. House specialties were sponge cake ladyfingers, glazed kisses, almond-meal macaroons.

A front balcony (since razed) permitted a later baker, Henry Maerki, to photograph parades, including one in 1901 for U.S. President William McKinley.

Now Austin Heritage Society's Tourist Information Center.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966.

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