Things Are Quiet at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre House

The Texas Chainsaw House is located in Kingsland, Texas, on the grounds of The Antlers Hotel. This 1900s Victorian house was featured prominently in the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as the home of Leatherface and his cannibalistic family, before it was moved to this location from Williamson County in 1998. The then-dilapidated farm house originally sat on Quick Hill Road during the July-August 1973 filming of the movie, then sat vacant and deteriorating. The original site is where La Frontera is now located, in Round Rock.

Built around 1909, this Queen Anne Style cottage was quite grand for its time with fish scale roofing and chamfered corners with gingerbread trim. Through its life, the Victorian house was home to a succession of families and students,. The house was purchased by The Antlers Hotel in 1998. It was then dismantled, moved to Kingsland and completely refurbished and is now home to Grand Central Café which was unfortunately closed the day we visited. Steve was talking to some other campers who told him about the house and led to our visit.

Right next door to the house turned café is the Antler Inn. The hotel opened in 1901 catering to railroad passengers. It became a family vacation home in 1913 and then reopened in 1996 as a hotel

You can also see the Antlers Station Depot across the street. It too has served different purposes over the years.

These railroad cars were purchased and refurbished by the Antlers Hotel as hotel rooms. That would be an interesting experience.

 

Even though the café and the coffee shop in the hotel were closed, we still enjoyed our trip to Kingsland and did a circle route through the countryside and along Lake Buchanan back to the park.