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Every time I walk past the three townhomes on the hill it reminds me of San Francisco.
Same for me. I've always thought that was an interesting corner of downtown.

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That cornerstone is gone. Also, what is that big building in the back of the townhouses? That is also gone.
Actually, all of those buildings are still there, the rowhouses, the big brown building under construction, which I believe was the Southwestern Bell Building, and the high rise on the right, the Ernest O. Thompson State Building. The only building that isn't still there is the one to the right (west) of the rowhouses. That was demolished for the AT&T switching station at 10th & Colorado across from the Ernest O. Thompson Building.

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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Au...!4d-97.7430608

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https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2718...7i13312!8i6656

Here's the switching station. It replaced the building that was next to the rowhouses. The old Southwestern Bell Building also had a facade redo sometime in the 60s, probably at the same time the switching station was built.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2721...7i16384!8i8192
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Ernest O. Thompson Building
Anyone that's interested the above mentioned Ernest O. Thompson Building the one in the back was once called The Austin Daily Tribune Building. Built in 1941 it was home to a daily that went out of business in 1942.
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Every time I walk past the three townhomes on the hill it reminds me of San Francisco.
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Every time I walk past the three townhomes on the hill it reminds me of San Francisco.
Me too. I always wanted to live there.
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Here is the FAA permit for the Texas Capitol that they had to file in 1992 during the restoration and underground Capitol extension. It lists the height as 304 feet.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...D=271656&row=3
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I prefer the second version!
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I prefer the second version!
Me too. They got rid of that ugly chain link fence.
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But there is zero traffic on MOPAC in the first one. That was around the time Barton Creek Mall opened, and MOPAC didn't go very far north or south.
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The Pennybacker Bridge opened that year, too.
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OMG Residential north of the Capitol! I love this photo. When was it taken?
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OMG Residential north of the Capitol! I love this photo. When was it taken?
it's hard to make out in the photo, but I think the Orsay tenant house can be seen on 14th street east of the capitol. Here's photos and drawings from the Library of Congress.

https://www.loc.gov/item/tx0396/

On the LOC site, you can also find more photos and drawings on the Lundbert Bakery on 10th and Congress.

https://www.loc.gov/item/tx0394/

I love the capitol drawings on the LOC.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/tx0398/
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It has to be pre 1933. 11th and brazos is now Dewitt C. Greer State Highway Building completed in 1933. With construction stuff maybe pre 1930.
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So much lost architecture in that photo.
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Wonder what that handsome looking building is across from the governors mansion?
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Wonder what that handsome looking building is across from the governors mansion?
That's the First Baptist Church. Since it was opened in 1915, the photo had to be after that date.

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Whatever it was, it's now a surface-level parking lot.
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I'm not sure of the exact date since none was given, but the Texas Rangers Monument is present, and it was built in 1907. It's the one in the upper left alongside the driveway.

https://tspb.texas.gov/prop/tcg/tcg-...nts/index.html
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I've posted this one before, but it's clearly dated and also easy to tell it's old because the only monument there so far is the Heroes of the Alamo one that was dedicated in 1891. Missing is the Fireman's monument that was built in 1896.

This also shows the old 1876 Travis County Courthhouse that was torn down in 1964 for...a parking lot.

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