Judge Sebron G. Sneed House, Federal architecture residence in Austin, Texas

The Judge Sebron G. Sneed House is a ruined two-story limestone plantation house at Comal Bluff in Austin, built 1852–1857, likely to designs by Abner Hugh Cook. Its first and second floors each held six rooms around front and rear halls, with four chimneys and pine plank floors; today only parts of the east and west exterior walls and some interior walls stand.

Sebron Graham Sneed moved from Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Austin in 1848 and bought a 470-acre farm from the Santiago Del Valle Land Grant in 1850 for $1000. Enslaved workers began the homestead in 1852 and finished it by 1857. By 1860 the family held 21 slaves, and during the Civil War Sneed's sons enlisted with the Confederacy while the house served as a recruiting station or Confederate hospital. Sneed willed the house and 55 acres at Comal Bluff to his daughter Miranda Bledsoe on July 15, 1871.

The house takes its name from Judge Sebron Graham Sneed, who moved from Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Austin in 1848 and bought a 470-acre farm from the Santiago Del Valle Land Grant in 1850 for $1,000. The property stayed in the family for generations: Sneed willed 55 acres and the house at Comal Bluff to his daughter Miranda Bledsoe in 1871, and it passed to her daughter Rockie Bledsoe by 1916. Local resident Bobby Cervantes later campaigned to save the ruin from demolition and preserved the nearby Sneed Family Cemetery, where the judge and his wife are buried.

The ruins sit at the intersection of Route I-35 and Bluff Springs Road and are visible from the street. The remains allow you to see the construction method without requiring formal visiting hours.

The limestone walls were built by enslaved workers who extracted and finished the stone directly on the property. This labor reveals the difficult conditions under which construction projects were completed in that era.