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Ida B. Wells Drive, formerly called Congress Parkway, was proposed in the 1909 Plan of Chicago as the central axis of the replanned city. The plan's authors, Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, proposed a broad new boulevard on the line of Congress Street that would cut through the long blocks between Van Buren and Harrison Streets, connecting a cultural center of new buildings in Grant Park ...
In 1899 he married Elise Hirschwald. The couple had two children, Dr. Henry Platt (AKA Heinz Placzek) of New York, NY, (1903–1955) and Dr. Gerda Haupt (1901–1989). Dr. Gerda Haupt moved with her two daughters Helga (born 1928 in Geneve) and Hildegard (born 1934 in Charlottenburg) [1] from Germany to Santiago de Chile in November 1937. Dr.
In 1995, the TFAA's board of directors purchased the property at 700 Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas. Three years later, in November 1998, the TFAA opened its new headquarters, the Jones Center for Contemporary Art. [6] In November 2002, the name of the organization was officially changed from the Texas Fine Arts Association to Arthouse. [8]
Congress Avenue south of Lady Bird Lake is known as South Congress, often abbreviated to SoCo, [2] and is an increasingly popular shopping and rental district. It passes the historic Travis Heights neighborhood, the Texas School for the Deaf , and St. Edward's University as it passes south out of town.
Texas's 31st congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers a strip of Central Texas from the northern Austin suburbs up to Temple and Gatesville. The district is centered around Bell and Williamson counties, two fast-growing suburban counties north of Austin; it includes the Williamson County portion of Austin itself.
It was the tallest building in Austin until the finishing of the Frost Bank Tower in 2003. In 2017, One American Center was rebranded as 600 Congress. [4] Annually, Make-A-Wish Central and South Texas has a fundraising event called "Over The Edge," in which the first 300 persons to raise $1,500 in donations get to rappel 32 stories down 600 ...
The Bank of America Center is the 37th tallest building in Austin, Texas.It was built in 1975 and has 261,609 square feet (24,304 m 2) of office space on 26 floors. [2] It is 336 feet (102 m) tall [3] and is located on the east side of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin between 5th and 6th Streets.
Its headquarters are in Austin. [ 1 ] It was established after an election on May 15, 2004, in which 31,920 Travis County voters voted in favor of creating the hospital district ; the measure passed as the voters made up 54.73% of people who voted.