Texas Chainsaw House

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The Texas Chainsaw House is located in Kingsland, Texas, on the grounds of The Antlers Hotel. This late 1900s Edwardian farmhouse was featured prominently in Tobe Hooper's horror 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 farmhouse originally sat on Quick Hill Road during the July–August 1973 filming of the movie. The original site is where La Frontera is now located, in Round Rock. In 1998, the house was cut into six or seven pieces to be moved, then reassembled and restored to its original condition by master carpenter Anthony Mayfield on behalf of an investor couple in Austin, Texas. The house was a "pattern book" house, designed possibly by A.W. Selure (a French-American immigrant who designed other architecturally similar houses). Or Carl Carlson (the reported builder of the three houses). Ordered from a catalog (likely A.E. Belford lumber, who...

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