La Condesa in the 2nd Street District has a very nice basement that can be rented for events. It was built in 1860 by Jean Schneider a German immigrant planning on building Austin’s first brewery. The location instead would later become the center of Austin’s red-light district. The Schneider family thrived in the neighborhood owning several businesses. Today in addition to the basement the Schneider Building, now Lambert’s, are all that remains of that era. We found these pictures in our basement of when the vault was first discovered. If you want to read more about the discovery: https://www.austinchronicle.com/…/2016…/kitchen-ghosts/
