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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4C_george-washington-carver-branch-library_Austin-TX.html
In Feb. 1926 the Austin Public Library opened in a room over a downtown store. Within months, the books were moved to this structure, built at Guadalupe and Ninth St., across from Wooldridge Park. In 1933, with completion of a permanent library fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4B_carrington-covert-house_Austin-TX.html
Leonidas D. Carrington (1816-97) and his wife, Martha Hill Carrington (1824-59), came to Austin from Mississippi in 1852. He began to accumulate real estate and on Sept. 15, 1853, bought this block from James M.W. Hall, Austin hotelman, and ten da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4A_camp-mabry_Austin-TX.html
The original 85-acre tract (gift of Austin citizens in 1892) was the site of annual encampments for the Texas Volunteer Guard, an elite militia constituted in 1876. Because larger maneuver, parade, and drill areas were needed, the guardsmen worked…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH49_buen-retiro_Austin-TX.html
Colonial Revival mansion built 1902 by Austin financier Louis Nicholas Goldbeck. Sold 1908 to Texas Association of Phi Gamma Delta, national fraternity first chartered in Texas in 1856. Housing Tau Deuteron Chapter, this has been campus residen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH48_buddington-benedict-sheffield-compound_Austin-TX.html
Albert and Rebecca Buddington built the first part of this compound as their home c. 1860. In 1921, it became the home of Dr. Harry Y. Benedict, a mathematician who served as University of Texas Professor and President. Delia Edwards, a later owne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH40_j-l-buaas-building_Austin-TX.html
Norwegian immigrant John L. Buaas moved to Austin in 1839 and in 1872 was appointed city alderman by reconstruction Governor E.J. Davis. In 1875 he built a mercantile store here. The two-story Italianate commercial structure was designed with two …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3Z_brizendine-house_Austin-TX.html
This simple Vernacular Rough Ashlar house represents the life style of the late 19th century working middle class family in Austin. The exterior proportions of the structure reflect Victorian influence. Built of limestone about 1870 by John R. Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3Y_brackenridge-hospital_Austin-TX.html
When Edwin Waller surveyed the Austin townsite in 1839, he set aside this block, in what was then the northeast corner of the city, for a hospital. The site lay empty until 1884, when the City of Austin and Travis County jointly opened a 20-bed, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3X_the-boardman-webb-house_Austin-TX.html
In the 1850s Dr. George T. Boardman (d.1884) came to Austin to practice dentistry. He developed a new process to fill teeth and helped incorporate the American Dental College. He bought this property in 1855 from early Austin merchant John Bremond…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3W_bloor-house_Manor-TX.html
Local rancher and farmer Alfred Sutton Bloor (1850-1899) and his wife Martha (Wainwright) (1849-1928), natives of Pennsylvania, built this home in 1897-98. Constructed by the Elgin Press Brick Co., the house features characteristics of the Queen A…
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