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Austin
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 15th-largest in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from...
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University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (also referred to as the University of Texas, UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university located in Austin, Texas, United States, and is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. The...
Lady Bird Lake
Lady Bird Lake (formerly Town Lake) is a reservoir on the Colorado River in downtown Austin, Texas, in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1960 by the construction of Longhorn Dam at its eastern boundary by the City of Austin. The western...
Zilker Park
Zilker Metropolitan Park is a recreational area in the heart of south Austin (near Barton Springs Pool and Lady Bird Lake) that comprises over 350 acres (142 ha) of publicly owned land. It is named after its benefactor Andrew Jackson Zilker, who...
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- 1.41645 km² (0.546894 mi² )
Lake Travis
Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1942 by the construction of Mansfield Dam on the western edge of Austin, Texas by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Lake Travis has...
Lake Austin
Lake Austin is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1939 by the construction of Tom Miller Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Lake Austin is one of the seven Highland Lakes...
Hippie Hollow Park
Hippie Hollow Park (originally known as McGregor County Park) is a park located on the shore of Lake Travis in northwest Austin 30°24′47″N 97°52′55″W / 30.413°N 97.882°W / 30.413; -97.882. It is the only legally recognized clothing-optional...
Texas State Capitol
The Texas State Capitol is located in Austin, Texas. It is the fourth building in Austin to serve as the seat of Texas government. It houses the chambers of the Texas Legislature and the office of the governor of Texas. It was originally designed in...
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- 0.20801 km² (0.080312 mi² )
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Frank Erwin Center
The Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Special Events Center — usually just The Frank Erwin Center in common usage — is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. It is also sometimes referred to as "The Drum" or "The Superdrum",...
Austin Community College
Austin Community College is a regional community college district with seven campuses located in various areas in and around the city of Austin, Texas, United States.
As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of Austin Community...
Barton Springs Pool
Barton Springs Pool is a man-made recreational swimming pool located on the grounds of Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. The pool exists in the channel of Barton Creek and is filled by water from Main Barton Spring, the fourth largest spring in Texas....
Mount Bonnell
Mount Bonnell (pronounced /bəˈnɛl/), also known as Covert Park, is a prominent point alongside Lake Austin in Austin, Texas. It has been a popular tourist destination since the 1850s. The mount provides a vista for viewing the city of Austin, Lake...
Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium
Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (formerly just War Memorial Stadium, Memorial Stadium, and Texas Memorial Stadium), located in Austin, Texas, has been home to the University of Texas Longhorn football team since 1924. The stadium has...
UFCU Disch-Falk Field
UFCU Disch-Falk Field is the baseball field of the University of Texas at Austin. It has been home to Texas Longhorns baseball since it was opened on February 17, 1975. On that day, the eventual NCAA national champion Longhorns swept a doubleheader...
Austin State Hospital
Austin State Hospital, formerly known as the State Lunatic Asylum, is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the state of Texas. Established by the Legislature in 1856, it commenced operations in 1861 with twelve patients. The name was changed in 1925....
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- 0.01497 km² (0.0057815 mi² )
Mike A. Myers Stadium
Mike A. Myers Stadium is the home of The University of Texas Longhorn track and field and soccer teams and also home to the USATF Elite Running Circuit Austin Track Club. The 20,000 seat stadium hosts the historic Texas Relays annually in April, as...
Armadillo World Headquarters
The Armadillo World Headquarters (usually called simply The Armadillo) was the premiere music hall and entertainment center in Austin, Texas from 1970 to 1980.
In 1970, Austin's flagship rock music venue, the Vulcan Gas Company, closed, leaving the...
Zilker
Zilker is a neighborhood in south central Austin, Texas. It extends south of Lady Bird Lake, approximately bounded by Lamar Boulevard to the southeast/south, La Casa Drive to the south, Rabb Road and Robert E Lee Road to the west and Barton Springs...
Travis Heights
Travis Heights is a fairly liberal, historic neighborhood in south Austin, Texas, United States, bounded by Lady Bird Lake on the north, Interstate 35 on the east, Congress Avenue on the west and Oltorf Street on the south.
It was founded in 1913 by...
Hyde Park
Hyde Park, served by the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, is an historic neighborhood in Central Austin, located just north of The University of Texas. The neighborhood was originally developed by Monroe Martin Shipe in 1891 as a "White Only"...
Red and Charline McCombs Field
The Red and Charline McCombs Field is the current home of the University of Texas Longhorn Women's Softball team.
Opening in 1998 at a cost of $4.5 million, the field seats approximately 1,250 and is named after university benefactor Red McCombs and...
The Paramount Theatre
The Paramount Theatre is a live theatre venue/movie theatre located in downtown Austin, Texas in the United States of America. The classical revival style structure was built in 1915. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic...
Texas State Cemetery
The Texas State Cemetery is a cemetery located on about 22 acres (89,000 m) just east of downtown Austin, the capital of Texas. Originally the burial place of Edward Burleson, Texas Revolutionary general and Vice-President of the Republic of Texas,...
Deep Eddy Pool
Deep Eddy Pool is a historic, man-made swimming pool in Austin, Texas. Deep Eddy is the oldest swimming pool in Texas and features a bathhouse built during the Depression era by the Works Progress Administration. The pool began as a swimming hole in...
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- 0.03642 km² (0.014063 mi² )
Driskill Hotel
The Driskill Hotel, a Romanesque style building completed in 1886, is the oldest operating hotel in Austin, Texas, USA, and one of the best-known hotels in Texas generally. The Driskill was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who...
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- 0.00324 km² (0.00125 mi² )
Umlauf Sculpture Garden
The Umlauf Sculpture Garden is a museum and outdoor sculpture garden centered around the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. Located at 605 Robert E. Lee Road in the Zilker neighborhood of Austin, Texas, the garden is adjacent to...
Pease Park
Pease Park (officially Pease District Park) is a public park in central Austin, Texas.
Open from early morning until 10:00 PM, the park is frequented by University of Texas at Austin students and disc golf enthusiasts. Every spring, it plays host to...
Blanton Museum of Art
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art is the art museum and research center of the University of Texas at Austin under the College of Fine Arts. The museum is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, housing some 18,000 works from...
Elisabet Ney Museum
The Elisabet Ney Museum is a museum located in Austin, Texas, United States. The museum is housed in the former studio of sculptor Elisabet Ney and is dedicated to showcasing her life and works. There is a permanent collection of Ney's portrait...
Lake Walter E. Long
Lake Walter E. Long is a power plant cooling reservoir on Decker Creek in Austin, Texas, USA. The reservoir was officially impounded in 1967 and serves to provide water for turbines used in the production of electricity from petroleum-based fuels....
Laguna Gloria
Laguna Gloria is the former home of Clara Driscoll Sevier and site of a 1916 Italianate-style villa on the shores of Lake Austin in Austin, Texas. It was the original home of the Austin Museum of Art and still houses some of its collections. Today...
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- 0.07285 km² (0.028126 mi² )
Shadow Lawn Historic District
Shadow Lawn Historic District is a zone of historic homes near the better-known Hyde Park Historic District in Austin, Texas. Roughly bounded by 38th Street, 39th Street, Avenue B, and Duval Street, the district includes several homes of historic...
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- 0.03238 km² (0.0125 mi² )
Swedish Hill Historic District
The Swedish Hill Historic District is a former Swedish enclave that is now a residential area of downtown Austin, Texas. Swedish Hill (or Swede Hill) was once bounded by 15th Street, Red River Street, Waller Street, and 19th Street (today Martin...
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- 0.01619 km² (0.0062502 mi² )
George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center is a museum in east Austin, Texas housed in the former George Washington Carver Library building.
The small, wood-frame building was constructed in 1926 on the corner of Ninth and Guadalupe...
Brentwood
Brentwood is a neighborhood in central Austin, Texas.
Brentwood comprises United States Census tracts 15.05 and 2.01, and ZIP codes 78756 and 78757. The area is bordered by Burnet Road on the west, Lamar Blvd. on the east, 45th Street on the south,...
Texas Governor's Mansion
The Texas Governor's Mansion is a historic home for the Governor of Texas in downtown Austin, Texas. It was built in 1854, designed by prominent architect Abner Cook, and has been the home of every governor since 1856.
On June 8, 2008, while midway...
Green Pastures
Green Pastures is a historic Victorian home housing a restaurant of the same name in south Austin, Texas neighborhood of Bouldin Creek. Completed in 1895 by local minister E.W. Herndon, the house sat on 23 acres (93,000 m) bordering a wooded area to...
Brown Building
The Brown Building is a ten-story office and residential tower in downtown Austin, Texas. Completed in 1938 at the southwest corner of 8th Street and Colorado Street, the building was home to many significant companies throughout 20th century Austin...
Oakwood Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery, originally called City Cemetery, is the oldest city-owned cemetery in Austin, Texas. Situated on a hill just east of I-35 that overlooks downtown Austin, just north of the Swedish Hill Historic District and south of Disch-Falk...
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- 0.1376 km² (0.05313 mi² )
General Land Office Building
The General Land Office Building in Austin, Texas is the oldest surviving state government office building in the city, and the first building designed by a university-trained architect (German architect Christoph Conrad Stremme). The building...
Smith Rock Shelter
The Smith Rock Shelter is a natual limestone overhang in McKinney Falls State Park near Austin, Texas. The shelter is believed to have been used by Native Americans from 500 BCE until the 1700s. The last known occupants were related to the Tonkawa....
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- 0.22259 km² (0.085941 mi² )
Dewitt C. Greer State Highway Building
The Dewitt C. Greer State Highway Building is an eight-story structure in downtown Austin, Texas housing offices of the Texas Department of Transportation since its completion. Located at the southwest corner of 11th Street and Brazos Street, the...
Scottish Rite Dormitory
The Scottish Rite Dormitory is a private women's dorm for the University of Texas built and operated by the Scottish rite of Freemasons in Austin, Texas. Located just north of campus on 27th Street and Whitis Avenue, the colonial revival style...
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- 0.02833 km² (0.010938 mi² )
Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters
The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters, now referred to as simply "The Mansion," is a Georgian Revival mansion located on the southwest corner of 24th Street and San Gabriel Street in Austin, Texas, United States. The building was...
University Baptist Church
University Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, USA, was organized in 1907–1908 to serve students at the University of Texas. Originally leasing space from the Highland Presbyterian Church, the church was officially chartered on September 27, 1908, with...
Woodlawn
Woodlawn, also known as the Pease Mansion, is a pre-Civil War mansion located at 30.2871° -97.7581° in Austin, Texas. The Greek Revival style house was owned by two Texas governors. Some notable people that have visited the mansion include Sam...
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- 0.00486 km² (0.0018751 mi² )
Old West Austin Historic District
The Old West Austin Historic District is a residential area west of downtown Austin, Texas noted for its collection of historically-significant residential homes. The oldest and best-known, Woodlawn, was built in 1853, and the family of resident...
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- 2.56984 km² (0.992223 mi² )
Lundberg Bakery
The Lundberg Bakery, also known as the Old Bakery and Emporium, is a historic bakery building currently serving as a gift shop in downtown Austin, Texas. The building was completed in 1876 and is located at 1006 Congress Avenue, half a block south...
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- 0.0004 km² (0.0001563 mi² )
Camp Mabry
Camp Mabry (ICAO: KATT) is a military installation in Austin, Texas that houses the headquarters of the Texas Military Forces. Its original ninety acre site, three miles northwest of downtown west of Mopac Expressway, was deeded from the city to the...
French Legation
The French Legation is a historic legation building in east Austin, Texas, built in 1841 to represent the French government in the new Republic of Texas.
Following Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836, France was one of three...
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- 0.01012 km² (0.0039064 mi² )
J. P. Schneider Store
The J.P. Schneider Store is a historic commerce building in downtown Austin, Texas built in 1873. Built along Second Street, the structure is the only remaining historic building in the immediate vicinity, and is today surrounded by Austin City Hall...
Scholz Garten
Scholz Garten, also known as Scholz Biergarten or Scholz Beer Garden, is a bar in downtown Austin, Texas that has been in continuous operation since 1866. It is the oldest operating business in Austin, and one of the oldest in the state.
To this day...
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- 0.00405 km² (0.0015626 mi² )
Goodall Wooten House
The Goodall Wooten House is a historic home built in 1898-1900 in Austin, Texas, USA. It was built by local doctor and benefactor Goodall H. Wooten and his wife Ella and was noted for its Classical Revival architecture and lush gardens. The building...
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- 0.00121 km² (0.00046877 mi² )
Austin History Center
The Austin History Center is the local history collection of the Austin Public Library and the city's historical archive, located at 810 Guadalupe Street in Austin, Texas, United States. It is regarded as one of the best such facilities in the...
Wooldridge Park
Wooldridge Park, also known as Wooldridge Square, is a downtown park in Austin, Texas. It was one of four public squares included in the city master plan drawn up by Edwin Waller in 1839. The square was not built in accordance with the plan, but was...
Area:
- 0.00728 km² (0.0028126 mi² )
Brizendine House
The Brizendine House is a historic home in downtown Austin, Texas, constructed circa 1870. The building is located on 11th Street and is today surrounded by an annex to the Travis County Courthouse and the Blackwell/Thurman Criminal Justice Center....
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- 0.0004 km² (0.0001563 mi² )
Goodman Building
The Goodman Building is a late Victorian style historic commerce building in downtown Austin, Texas. It was constructed as a grocery in the mid-1880s to serve Austinites northwest of the Texas State Capitol. Today is serves as a state government...
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- 0.00121 km² (0.00046877 mi² )
Carrington-Covert House
The Carrington-Covert House is a historic commerce building in downtown Austin, Texas; it serves as the headquarters of the Texas Historical Commission. It was built in 1857, less than 20 years after Austin was founded, making it one of the few...
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- 0.00121 km² (0.00046877 mi² )
Henry Hirshfeld House and Cottage
The Henry Hirshfeld House and Cottage are two historic homes in downtown Austin, Texas originally inhabited by the prominent Hirshfeld family. The cottage, built in 1873, housed Henry and his wife Jennie until the larger house was built in 1885. The...
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- 0.00202 km² (0.00078128 mi² )
Central Christian Church
Central Christian Church is a major church in downtown Austin, Texas affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Organized in 1847, it is one of the oldest congregations in the city. The current church building, feauring Romanesque...
Fischer House
The Fischer House is a historic mansion in downtown Austin, Texas, USA, completed in 1882. Its builder, Joseph Fischer, was a prominent mason in Austin at the time, and its bold High Victorian, Italianate architecture and ornamentation reflect his...
Area:
- 0.00405 km² (0.0015626 mi² )
