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1100 Kingsbury St Austin, Texas 78703: Coordinates Area: 42 acres (17 ha) Created: 1875 ...
December 15, 1983 (August 14, 2013 boundary increase ()Roughly bounded by Camp, Myrtle, Washington, and Crockett Sts. Seguin: Includes Recorded Texas Historic Landmark; 70 buildings, 1 structure, 1875-1949; boundary increase in 2013 added 9 buildings.
One Eleven Congress, formerly One Congress Plaza, is a skyscraper in Downtown Austin, the state capital of Texas in the United States.Standing 397 feet (121 meters) tall and containing 30 floors, the building is the 23rd tallest in Austin. [1]
The Driskill, a Romanesque-style building completed in 1886, [2] is the oldest operating hotel in Austin, Texas, United States, and one of the best-known hotels in Texas generally. The Driskill was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune constructing "the finest hotel south of St. Louis". [3]
The aggregated heights of Austin's high-rises is second in Texas, behind Houston, based on data from Texas Real Estate Source. [3] [4] The current tallest completed building in Austin is Sixth and Guadalupe, with a height of 874 ft (266 m), followed by The Independent at 690 ft (210 m) and The Austonian at 680 ft (210 m).
Texas State Senator Kirk Watson and Representative Gina Hinojosa proposed a bill to allow the complex to be auctioned off. [6] In August 2023, the Texas General Land Office and the City of Austin Mayor Kirk Watson announced a plan to redevelop the Hobby complex into workforce housing. The complex would ideally include a housing resource office ...
The street is a six-lane, tree lined avenue that cuts through the middle of the city from far south Austin and goes over Lady Bird Lake leading to the Texas State Capitol in the heart of Downtown. Congress Avenue south of Lady Bird Lake is known as South Congress , often abbreviated to SoCo, [ 2 ] and is an increasingly popular shopping and ...
The Bremond Block Historic District is a collection of eleven historic homes in downtown Austin, Texas, United States, constructed from the 1850s to 1910.. The block was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is considered one of the few remaining upper-class Victorian neighborhoods of the middle to late nineteenth century in Texas. [2]