Posted Jun 21, 2012, 3:17 PM
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Location: Austin,TX<-->Dripping Springs,TX<-->Birmingham, AL<-->Warm Springs,GA
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Well besides it being goofy to call it "Far West Austin" - it's also not really Austin. It's Westlake.
And geographically, I actually live southeast of Sunset Valley. I've never really thought of my neighborhood as being "Far South Austin". Although, I guess in the 60s when it was built it must have felt that way.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...e-2402106.html
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Governor's Mansion rises from ashes in grand style
By Mike Ward
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 5:41 a.m. Thursday, June 21, 2012
Published: 10:31 p.m. Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The mansion's collection of furnishings — set to start arriving in moving vans today — features a writing desk once used by Stephen F. Austin, known as the Father of Texas; a bed used by Sam Houston, a former governor and Republic of Texas president; portraits of Gov. Elisha Pease and his wife, who were in office when the house was built; and a memento collection started in the 1960s by first lady Jean Houston Daniel.
Located on a knoll just southwest of the Capitol, the mansion has been occupied by 40 Texas governors and is the oldest executive mansion west of the Mississippi River still still used for its original purpose.
The mansion has been empty since October 2007, when a $10 million deferred-maintenance project began to upgrade plumbing and deteriorated infrastructure. The house previously had undergone an extensive restoration in the early 1980s.
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Governor's Mansion restoration, 06.20.12
http://galleries.statesman.com/galle...062012/#557412
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