The Mather Mansion at 404 Academy St. (from the Austin American-Statesman online)--
"Myron D. Mather, president of Austin Water, Light & Power Co., built the three-story home using granite left over from the Capitol, according to the Texas Historical Commission marker in front of the house. The home became a Texas Historic Landmark in 1985, part of the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and is also an Austin Landmark.
Mather lived there until 1893. Then the home was owned for a time by Texas Supreme Court Justice Leroy G. Denman. It earned its nickname in the 1920s when it served as the Austin Military School. Evidence of that time remains in the small hole in the top of the foyer dome that can be used to scout out who is in the foyer. In the basement, one room had small chunks missing out of the plaster, that looked to be from where the boys stored their rifles. The Lowes have found a pamphlet from that time that reads, “Send us your troubled youth.” I personally have seen it while driving past, but never got out to tke a closer look. I admit I envy those who got to LIVE near it--well, near enough to visit it whenever they wanted!
The top of the roof in the lookout tower is almost 70 feet over the front steps from the street.
I have some family that lives in Marble Falls. Going out there, you often see in the older parts of town houses and buildings with granite bricks much like that one - not that tall or ornate, necessarily. It is pretty neat to see, nonetheless. The granite for the capitol building came from Marble Falls.
There were plenty of on-location shots that were recognizable as Miami regardless of where the non-location shots took place.
Looked to me like there were occasional live scenes filmed in Miami, but most of the Miami and Florida exterior shots were stock footage. Most of the scenes were filmed in the L.A. area on sound stages or at local exterior locations. Dexter's apartment, for example, looked to me like a motel in Marina del Rey. It's just too expensive to haul an entire cast and crew to Florida to shoot an entire series.
Looked to me like there were occasional live scenes filmed in Miami, but most of the Miami and Florida exterior shots were stock footage. Most of the scenes were filmed in the L.A. area on sound stages or at local exterior locations. Dexter's apartment, for example, looked to me like a motel in Marina del Rey. It's just too expensive to haul an entire cast and crew to Florida to shoot an entire series.
Negative. Dexter's apartment was shot in Miami. It played a "cameo" role in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain movie that was shot in Miami.
Then its twin is in Marina del Rey. And anything with water and palm trees is "Miami feeling", including Marina del Rey.
Perhaps for you, but I've been in both cities and they are very different.
The point is that having a TV series that makes an effort to show Austin (regardless of where interior scenes are shot), would make an impact to people's appreciation of the city.
Dexter's apartment complex is actually located along the beachfront somewhere in the north end (103rd St) of the Miami Beach area. The interior was recreated on the Gower Studios lot in Hollywood. The police building exterior is the actual Miami police/fire/emergency services building. Most of the other film locations are in SoCal, and most of the residential locations are in a part of Long Beach known for Spanish and Art Deco residential construction. There are several sites with information about Dexter locales. Here is one of them:
I got curious about Dexter locales because so many of the street scenes and neighborhood scenes reminded me of Los Angeles or Southern California. Something about the light and the vegetation just did not seem like Miami to me. Miami looks a bit like LA, but not really. Seems the set dressers often used vivid pastel paint jobs and added vegetation to make things more Miami-like. I think a lot of the beach scenes were shot in Long Beach and elsewhere in SoCal, and I am speculating that a Miami skyline or Miami Beach/Ft. Lauderdale skyline was somehow inserted as a backdrop. There was often too much going on in the water in some beach scenes with regards to shipping or an irregular shoreline in the background to resemble most beaches in the Miami area which usually front directly on the ocean with nothing visible but the ocean itself.
Although this is a gorgeous photograph, it is nevertheless disturbing in that it highlights the cryptic symbolism of some sort of apparent nefarious entity. I suspect a conspiracy is afoot, and I aim to ask Laura Pressley for help in sussing out and extinguishing this menace before it gains more of a foothold among our unsuspecting citizenry.
Omg this is going to look so good once The Independent and 5th & West go up! It excites my imagination. Even NorthShore shows up in this picture, but that will be mostly blocked from this view once 500 W 2nd is up. This really is an exciting time to be living in Austin! MEEP
Never realized before how much prime property that high school is taking up. That would have been a better location for the Millennium. Downtown looks deceptively dense from that angle.
Really>???? "That High School"... is a really important public high school located Near a neighbohood it serves well. I find it really really questionable that it would be seen as expendable due to it's Pirme property. Tear down a public high school for a crappy suburban apartment building. ? Prioities man... where are your priorities.? It didn't occur to me that you may have been joking.... hopefuly you were.
And downtown is getting dense... there is no deception.
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