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The Austin History Center is the local history collection of the Austin Public Library and the city's historical archive.. The building opened as the official Austin Public Library in 1933 and served as the main library until 1979, [2] when library functions moved to the John Henry Faulk Library, a newer facility next door.
The William Sydney Porter House or O. Henry House is a historic structure in Downtown Austin, Texas. William Sydney Porter, better known as the author O. Henry, lived there between 1893 and 1895. The Porter house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973. The house is known today as the O. Henry Museum.
The map provides an interesting historical perspective for our modern day consideration of the Southgate–Lewis House, on many different levels of analysis. The Southgate–Lewis House was constructed only 15 years after this map was created. In 1888 the population of Austin was somewhere between 10 and 15 thousand people. [22]
Delwood Duplex Historic District: March 21, 2011 : Roughly bounded between Maplewood Ave. and Kirkwood, Ashwood, and Wrightwood Rds. Austin: Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830-1960 MPS: 51: J. Frank Dobie House
Driskill Hotel lobby in 2012 Driskill Hotel annex, built 1930. Jesse Driskill, a successful cattle baron, had moved to Texas from Missouri in 1849. Flush with cash from his service to the Confederate Army, to which he supplied beef throughout the Civil War, he decided to diversify by constructing a grand hotel in Austin.
The City of Austin assumed ownership of it in 1941 and it is managed through the city's Parks and Recreation Department. In addition to being a local and state historic landmark, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1972, and is one of the 40 museums in the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program.
The J.P. Schneider Store is a historic commerce building in downtown Austin, Texas built in 1873. Built along Second Street, the structure is the only remaining historic building in the immediate vicinity and is today surrounded by Austin City Hall and the headquarters of Silicon Labs.
The Carrington–Covert House is a historic building in downtown Austin, Texas that serves as headquarters of the Texas Historical Commission. Built between 1855 and 1857, it is one of the few surviving pre-Civil War structures in the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.