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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDM_moore-flack-house_Austin-TX.html
Local contractor Charles Funk built this house for John M. and Estelle Moore in 1887 at a cost of $2,000. At that time John M. Moore (1853-1902), a former Texas legislator and District Attorney, was Secretary of State for Governor Lawrence Sulliva…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDL_austins-moonlight-towers_Austin-TX.html
City of Austin Marker:This is one of 31 original moonlight towers installed in Austin in 1895. Seventeen remain. Each tower illuminated a circle of 3000 feet using 6 carbon arc lamps (now mercury vapor). Austin's tower lights are the sole survivor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHD6_mauthe-myrick-mansion_Austin-TX.html
Rafael Mauthe (1820-79), a German stonemason, built this house in 1877 on land purchased from the noted architect Abner Cook in 1856. Mauthe's wife Mary (d. 1898) lived here after his death and managed the nearby family rental property. In 1898 th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHCY_joseph-and-mary-robinson-martin-house_Austin-TX.html
Prominent Austin contractor George Fiegel completed this house in 1903 for Joseph Anthony (1867-1947) and Mary (Robinson)(d. 1934) Martin. A noted wild game conservationist, Joe Martin primarily is associated in Austin business history with the Au…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHAY_old-bakery_Austin-TX.html
Built 1876 by Chas. Lundberg. Bread then was not sliced or wrapped; children and maids waited with baskets to take home loaves hot from the oven. House specialties were sponge cake ladyfingers, glazed kisses, almond-meal macaroons.
A front balc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHAW_m-m-longs-livery-stable-and-opera-house_Austin-TX.html
When M.M. Long and his family moved here from Bastrop in the 1860s, the first floor of this structure served as the livery stable for Long's Austin to Burnet and Lampasas stage line. On the second floor Long ran an opera house which was used for p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHAT_littlefield-building_Austin-TX.html
George Washington Littlefield (1842-1920) came to Texas from Mississippi in 1850. After serving in Terry's Texas Rangers in the Civil War, he made his fortune ranching and driving cattle. He moved to Austin in 1883 and, in 1890, established the Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHAN_jacob-larmour-house_Austin-TX.html
This Victorian cottage was built in 1875 for architect Jacob Larmour (1822-1901), who came to Austin with his family in 1871. He played a major role in the design of many of the city's commercial and residential buildings and was appointed state a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH9Q_claudia-taylor-johnson-hall_Austin-TX.html
Constructed during the period 1912-1914. This building was the seventh United States post office location in Austin, Texas. The supervising architect for the Neoclassical revival style structure was James Knox Taylor of the U.S. Treasury Departmen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH98_site-of-edward-mandell-house-home_Austin-TX.html
Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), heir of a wealthy Houston businessman, moved to Austin in 1885 to be at the center of state politics, his primary interest. He managed the successful campaigns of four Texas Governors and became an important figur…