About McQueeney Hall

McQueeney Hall was built in 1914. It was the first general store in McQueeney, Texas, started by Ed Wuest. The general store originally sold clothes, groceries, seed, feed and other supplies to the small community. In 2004, the general store was completely renovated and converted into McQueeney Hall, a true Texas honky-tonk ballroom to serve as a live music venue and private party facility.

McQueeney is a small town on Farm Road 78, four miles west of Seguin in west central Guadalupe County. The town was originally built by German settlers around 1870.

When the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway was built through the area in 1876, the local stop was named Hilda. In 1900 C.F. Blumberg built a store a mile east of the Hilda rail stop. Hoping to persuade the railroad to move the stop from Hilda to his store, he called the site McQueeney, in honor of the superintendent of the Southern Pacific line. The post office which opened in 1900 was also called McQueeney, but the railroad did not move the stop from Hilda to the store site.

In 1914 McQueeney had two general stores and forty residents. At the end of the twentieth century, McQueeney had approximately 2500 residents.

Lake McQueeney, also called Lake Abbott, was built a mile northeast of the community in 1925 by means of a dam across the Guadalupe River. It became a popular area for recreation and summer homes. Lake McQueeney for years has been considered the waterski capital of Texas and to this day produces great waterskiers and wakeboarders.