I had passed by the building earlier without taking much notice. The two-story structure in downtown Brownwood, a couple of blocks south of the Brown County courthouse, is known as the Southwest Appliance Building, so named for a household-goods business once based there. It takes up an entire city block. Despite its size, I hadn’t paid it any mind, perhaps because it sits vacant, its ground floor windows and doors boarded up.But this time, after wandering around town, I noticed a crew of workers using a hydraulic lift to power wash the building’s stone exterior, revealing a bright bone color that had been covered with gray grime. Giving it proper attention, I saw that the arched windows on the second story were lined with small…The post A Weekend in the Little Hill Country Town That’s Still Obsessed With Trains appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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