Comfort: National Historic District

Commercial area showing serveral buildings with limestone construction

Comfort National Historic District (Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0.)

Vintage photo of commercial area with limestone buildings, an unpaved road, and a stone archway over the road that says Comfort
Stone monument with narrative plaque about the Founding Freethinkers

Freethinkers Monument in Comfort.

Several people going in and out of a small store

Paul Ingenhuett Post Office ca. 1907

Several men in front of a two storey limestone building with a second floor balcony named Ingenhuett Saloon

Peter Ingenhuett Saloon, built in 1883

Small limestone barber shop with a covered walkway

Barber Shop

Building made of limestone with a covered entrance and short tower on a corner

Former bank, now the Comfort Historical Museum

Two storey limestone building named Faust Hotel with full porch and a covered balcony

Faust Hotel

After briefly considering naming the town “Gemütlichkeit”, the original founders settled on “Comfort” – a feeling few of them experienced back in Germany.

Several historical sites in downtown Comfort comprise a fascinating walking tour that showcases the town’s German heritage, including the Freethinkers Memorial Monument on High Street; a bust of Ernst Altgelt in the Comfort Park; the 1892 German Evangelical Church; the 1880 Ingenheutt Faust Hotel and homestead; and the 1854 Faltin House.

Comfort National Historic District

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