The tradition of “Sunday houses” originated when German pioneers first settled the area around Fredericksburg. The original settlers were provided with farm acreage outside of town and a small lot in the town, where they built houses for their families to use when they came to town on weekends to buy provisions and attend church on Sunday morning. Pancakes were a treat often prepared on those Sunday mornings in town, in the family's "Sunday Haus."
After church, they’d load up the wagons and head back to the farms. Fredericksburg’s Main Street, Austin Street, and San Antonio Street were the original thoroughfares for these weekend visitors and were constructed to be “wide enough for a team of oxen and a wagon to turn around in!"