Discovery Architectural Antiques is the largest operation of
its kind in the USA. We stock nearly everything imaginable that can be
salvaged from old homes and buildings including
antique stained glass,
doors, windows,
flooring, siding,
beams, shiplap, posts,
lighting,
tin ceiling,
tubs, sinks, and one of the best collections of
Antique door hardware to be found anywhere. We have over 130,000 square feet
of inventory under roof, the main showrooms alone take up five buildings in
downtown Gonzales, Texas. We hope this web page will help give you some idea of
what we have but please realize, since we have well over a million items in
stock, it only shows a tiny sample of what we offer at any moment in time.
Located in Gonzales, Texas. 830-672-2428
swk@discoverys.net
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Welcome to Discovery Architectural
Antiques, the one stop shop for "Old House" Restoration as well as "New Home"
architectural embellishments. We try to stock nearly everything from
flooring to bath tubs, from doorknobs to tin ceiling, and antique beams to
quality stained glass. No where else will you see such a full spectrum of
products with this variety of inventory at such reasonable prices.
While we won't generally carry the highest end or the lowest end of the
spectrum, we do carry one of the best stocks of products to be found for people
building or remodeling homes in the $200,000-$20,000,000 price range. We
hope this web page provides you with a glimpse of what we have to offer but
please realize, it is only a taste and the best way to see it all is come and
visit. Remember to check the hours...9-5:30 Tuesday - Saturday.
Just a few of our products, from knobs, stained glass, beams, &
doors................and our guard dogs...Beware!
(Sadly, our baby Sadie, on the left above is no longer
with us, died from a hit and run 2/10/06 May she rest in Peace.)
Watchdogs are on Duty 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week. Meet Lola and Blondie, our new guard dogs in training.
Beware of Dogs!
The Largest of our 5 warehouse sites at 75,000 sf, it houses 5,000+ doors, 3,000+
mostly wavy glass windows, flooring, barn wood, siding, trim, 20+ foot long
beams, dimensional lumber, beaded wood,
shiplap, hand hewn beams, tubs, sinks, toilets, and bricks, clay roofing tiles, much more. 2 1/2 acre
site.
Warehouse #2 has the sawmill, the flooring machines, and large beams that we
cut up for flooring and custom beam sizes or dimensional lumber.
Warehouse #3
has beams as long as 40' and where we store sold merchandise until customers are
ready for delivery or pickup. We also store flooring we have pre-milled from the antique beams. Warehouse #4 is not shown but has more doors, sashes (new old stock 100 years
old but never installed), 100 years old wavy glass, textured glass, and 10,000
square feet of tin ceiling, antique cypress shutters, Walnut new old stock
spindles, iron fireplace fronts, and more tubs. Warehouses 5 and 6 are also not shown, but include more doors, cabinets, and other things that won't fit in the store.
Our Mission
To continue to maintain the biggest variety of architectural antiques, vintage woods, like Antique Long Leaf Pine, Antique
Doorknobs, hardware, stained glass, and beams in the Southern USA. We will continue to stock over a million
items and stay true to antiques instead of falling back to reproductions to fill
up our space. We promise fast response, good communication, and quality
products.
We're Nuts about Doorknobs.
Company Profile
We are a family owned company that
was started 10 years ago with the goal of providing a wide variety of old
house parts and pieces including nearly everything one would need to either
build a new house to look old or restore an old one. We have grown into the largest
store of our kind in the USA and we are still expanding at a rapid
rate.
Most of our customers are amazed
at how much inventory we have on hand by how well organized and clean we keep our main
showrooms. It is a sizable task given the scope of our operations. We aim to please and can
custom cut your antique beams, mill flooring to your specs or create trim and
frames for some of the 5,000 doors we keep in stock. No one else in Texas comes
anywhere close to having either the selection or the service that we have to
offer.
Brad Kittel and Suzanne Kittel are
the owners and have had years of experience specializing in brokering "Old Houses" as
well as revitalizing dozens of homes before starting this business. Brad
Kittel won the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1994 and numerous
revitalization awards during his career in Austin, Texas after which they moved
to Gonzales in order to be able to acquire the massive storefront and warehouse
space it would take to make this operation possible.
Contact Information
We are located in Gonzales,
Texas. (Directions) only 1 hour from Austin or San Antonio and 2 hours West of Houston. Call
us on our toll free line at 888-686-2966 or use the number below. Please check
out current hours of operation before making a long trip to see us in case of a
change. Normally our hours are from 9am-5:30pm Tuesday through Saturdays. Please call ahead if you are working on a big project and
would like to block out some time with the owner for the royal tour.
Telephone
830-672-2428
FAX
830-672-3701
Postal address
Discovery Architectural
Antiques, 409 St. Francis, Gonzales, Texas 78629
The first of the Tiny Texas Houses coming off the line. See
Tiny Texas House page for more
pictures. These are made from 95% vintage materials, yet the
electric, plumbing, and insulation is new. The ultimate in Green
building and a home that will last another hundred years without the modern home
out gassing and environmental issues. This is what you do for fun when you
get tired of just stacking up vintage lumber and Architectural Antiques.
Finished model pictures will be done for next week.
