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Robert H. H. Hugman (February 8, 1902 – July 22, 1980) was an American architect who designed the San Antonio River Walk.. Born in San Antonio as Robert Harvey Harold Hugman, he finished Brackenridge High before graduating from the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin in 1924. [1]
The River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops, connecting the major tourist draws such as the Shops at Rivercenter, the Arneson River Theatre, Marriage Island, La Villita, HemisFair Park, Petty House, the Tower Life Building, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Pearl, and the city's five ...
The Riverwalk was extended to the north in 2009, and that section of the river is now called the Museum Reach and features attractions such as the Pearl Brewery and the San Antonio Museum of Art. [6] [7] In 2013, the Mission Reach stretch of the Riverwalk was opened in the south, which features hiking, biking, and paddling trails. [8] [9] [10]
For the first edition of 'From the Archives,' consider a humble building that served as the Austin Central Library, now part of the Carver Museum,
Waller Creek is a stream and an urban watershed in Austin, Texas, United States.Named after Edwin Waller, the first mayor of Austin, it has its headwaters near Highland Mall and runs in a southerly direction, through the Commodore Perry Estate, the University of Texas at Austin and the eastern part of downtown Austin, including the Red River Cultural District, to its end at Lady Bird Lake.
Of the dozens of day trip destinations within fairly easy reach of Austin, we picked these five historic spots to get your motors started. Monument Hill in La Grange (Round-trip drive time: 2 hours)
First things first about Austin street names. My Sept. 3 "Austin Answered" column presented a primer of sorts on major east-west and north-south streets that run through the historic core of ...
Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City (U of Texas Press, 2015). Busch, Andrew. "Building" A City of Upper-Middle-Class Citizens": Labor Markets, Segregation, and Growth in Austin, Texas, 1950–1973." Journal of Urban History (2013) online; Humphrey, David C. Austin: A history of the capital city (Texas A&M University Press ...