Downtown La Grange is a typical Texas town built around a courthouse on a square: historic buildings of beautiful brickwork and stone.
For all you quilters out there, there is the Texas Quilt Museum. You can kick my butt right now because I DID NOT go inside. I'm not an aficionado of quilts (although I own a museum-quality quilt which I inherited and a first place Texas county fair blue ribbon quilt. They're both in a storage facility baking in Arizona). You must remember that I was on a quest to find historic 1890s courthouses, not quilts!
I did however spend some time walking through Grandmother's Flower Garden next to the Quilt Museum which was planted to depict a typical turn-of-the-century town garden in La Grange and Fayette County.
Tomorrow, the piece de resistance: the Fayette County Courthouse!
8 comments:
i like the main street view. and cool quilt mosaic on the building, too.
Cute little town.
i would love to live in or close to a town like this. i love the old buildings and i love quilts so i would have gone inside... and i don't own a quilt, just a lap quilt... send me yours...please? wait, will it fit a king size bed?
The buildings are classic and the flowers are delightful. Lucky you to have a quilt of the quality you describe. Get that treasure out of storage and use it!! If not, I'd gladly take it off your hands!!
That is quite a display on the side of the quilt museum. But, I love those flowers in the garden. Very nice.
Old Quilts, like old Courthouses, are messages from another time and place.
http://www.quilting-in-america.com/Quilt-Blocks.html
In fact, I once made a Courthouse Steps block for an organization raffle.
I'm pretty sure we can convince you of the historical importance of quilts!
Cheers
Jo, with needle in hand!
My mother was a quilter. I have neither the steady hand not the patience it takes to make a nice quilt. I do like to look at them though. I love the idea of a town garden. Can't wait to see that Courthouse.
That is an awesome quilt mural on the side of the building. I don't quilt, but I love them.
I love seeing old courthouses, too. Aren't courthouses that sit in the middle of the town square usually county seats?
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