Haehnel Building
a.k.a. Site #18;Shorty's Bar
1101 E. 11th St., Austin, TXLot 1, Block 7 has been a busy commercial location since the early 1880s when a structure was located on the southeast corner of Uth and Waller to serve as the residence, grocery, and saloon of Salvatore Bailetti.
Carl Haehnel, member of a well-known Austin mercantile family, became involved with the property between 1895 and 1898. He ran a grocery and had his residence there in 1900, when a Sanborn Fire Insurance map noted the presence of a frame building on lots one and two with approximately the same configuration as the brick commercial building and residence now on the property. The present brick structure, which probably replaced Haehnel's first building, is the best example in Austin of a corner commercial business with an attached residence.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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