William P. “Will” Fischer, the son of Adam Fischer of Germany, was born in 1859, in Gonzales, Texas. He married Cora Viola Fitzgerald July 19, 1892. Will and his brother, Lee, operated a dry goods store in Gonzales, located on the west side of what is now Confederate Square.
The lots that this house was built on were acquired by the Fischer Brothers Store in payment for an unpaid debt. The brothers decided that the first of them to marry should build his home there. William was the first to marry and in 1893 he built this wonderful one story Queen Anne style home for his bride. Although two complete rooms have been added over the years and the cupola that graced the original structure has been removed, the wide softly curving porch accentuated by a frontal semi-circular colonnade makes the single story structure one of the most gracious in Gonzales.
Will began ranching and in 1901 he and Cora moved to Sweetwater, Texas. They moved to their ranch in Marfa, Texas, about 1907. Will died January 7, 1933. Cora remarried and moved to California, but when she died in 1958, she was returned to Gonzales to be buried beside Will in the Gonzales I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
