Austin Memorable Places Lander Hughes
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Index Tenth Street at Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas
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Congress Avenue at Fourth Street, Austin, Texas
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South Congress Avenue at Nellie Street, Austin, Texas South Congress Avenue at Monroe Street, Austin, Texas
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South Congress Avenue at Milton Street, Austin, Texas
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Sixth Street looking West, Austin, Texas
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East Sixth Street, Austin, Texas
East Sixth Street at Trinity Street, Austin, Texas
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Walsh Street at West Sixth Street, Austin, Texas
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West Austin, Austin, Texas
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West Twelfth Street at Windsor Road, Austin, Texas Hyde Park, Austin, Texas
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East 5th Street at Brazos St.
The nine-block area of East Sixth Street roughly between Lavaca Street to the west and Interstate 35 to the east is recognized as the Sixth Street Historic District . Developed as one of Austin's trade and commercial districts in the late 1800s, the predominant building style are two or threestory masonry Victorian commercial architecture.
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East Sixth Street, Austin, Texas
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The Driskill Hotel
Most structures in the area had already been built by the 1880s, though there are a few notable exceptions such as the Driskill Hotel (1886), the Scarbrough Building (1910) and the Littlefield Building. The area around nearby 4th Street and 6th Street has been a major entertainment district since the 1970s. Many bars, clubs, music venues, and shopping destinations are located on E. 6th Street between Congress Avenue and Interstate 35 and many offer live music at one time or another during the week.
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East Sixth Street at Trinity Street, Austin, Texas
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W. Sixth Street looking West
West Sixth Street The area of Sixth Street west of Lavaca is known as the West 6th Street District. Recently, there has been a growing movement to develop this area as an entertainment district of its own, geared toward the live music crowd.
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Walsh St. at West Sixth Street, Austin, Texas
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West Line Historic District
Baylor Street
W. Sixth Street at W. Lynn
The district encompasses an approximately 90-block tract of land located west of downtown. Bounded by Baylor Street to the east, Fifth Street to the south, Thirteenth Street to the north and Texas State Highway Loop 1 to the west. It is located south of the Old West Austin Historic District and southeast of the Clarksville Historic District. The district comprises more than twenty-five subdivisions platted between 1871 and 1948, out of the George W. Spear League and Division Z of the government lands west of the original city center. Early settlement in the area consisted of expansive estates, later subdivided in response to the city’s burgeoning population. The West Sixth Street streetcar line, commonly referred to as the West Line, extended into the district from downtown and facilitated the development of suburban tracts.
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Due to the piecemeal development and hilly topography of the area, the streets form an irregular rectilinear grid. A number of notable nineteenth-century residences and institutional buildings exist throughout the district, but the preponderance of resources consist of Craftsman and Classical Revivalinfluenced bungalows built during the height of the area's development from the 1910s-30s. In keeping with the original developers’ intentions, the historic district maintains strong residential characteristics.
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West 12th Street at Windsor Road, Austin, Texas
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Hyde Park Historic District Located in Central Austin, Hyde Park is defined by W. 38 Street to the south, W. 51 Street to the north, Duval Street to the east, and Guadalupe Street to the west. It is situated just north of the The University of Texas and borders the neighborhoods of Hancock and North Loop. Hyde Park traces its origins back to 1891 and is considered to be Austin's first suburb.The neighborhood was originally developed by Monroe Martin Shipe in 1891 as a "White Only" streetcar suburb with a large artificial lake, but it has since become one of the most densely populated areas in the city's urban core. W. 39th Street at Avenue G
Hyde Park was initially marketed to Austin's elite in the 1890s, and Shipe achieved moderate success. The first houses built in the neighborhood were stylistic examples of late 19th-century domestic architecture. Many of them, such as the Oliphant-Walker House, were built in the Queen Anne style by locally prominent citizens.
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Hyde Park, Austin, Texas
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