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Images documenting West 14th Street from the Austin Files House Building Collection
Photographs documenting Sneed House from the House Building collection. The Judge Sebron G. Sneed House (also, Sneed House and Comal Bluff) is a historic former limestone plantation house in Austin, Texas, commissioned by Judge Sebron Graham Sneed. It was likely designed by architect and general contractor, Abner Hugh Cook, co-owner of the sawmill where Sneed had purchased lumber for the construction of the house. Cook is most notable for designing the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin.
Photographs documenting the 1200 block of 2nd Street from the House Building collection
Photographs documenting 200 West 2nd Street from the House Building collection
Photographs documenting 400 and 401 West 2nd from the House Building collection (the J.P. Schneider and Bros. building). The structure is the only remaining historic building in the immediate vicinity and is today surrounded by Austin City Hall and the headquarters of Silicon Labs. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Images documenting East 49th Street from the Austin Files House Building Collection
Photographs documenting the 100 block of East Sixth Street from the Austin House Building Files collection
The Flower Hill Urban Homestead Museum exists to celebrate an Austin founding family of civil servants the Smoot family. The Smoot family homestead grew from a four-room home with an outdoor kitchen, into a fourteen room, four hall, and four porch estate. Flower Hill flourished as a favorite place for relatives, artists, students, professors, and religious leaders, to live, study, and work. Central to the Smoot identity was a love of the arts, civic engagement, honesty, and hard work, and the family impressed these values upon their neighbors. The house was grandiose, but far from decadent, hardly was anything done away with without first being repurposed, and so behind Flower Hill’s cypress trunk column façade there fostered a resilient and creative spirit which helped shape the Austin culture we know and love today. O. Henry married in the parlor. A Nicola Amati violin was played on the front porch. Asher grew up to co-found the Austin American newspaper, and Lawrence worked for the Texas Supreme Court for 66 years, becoming the longest serving civil servant in Texas history. While, in the library, their father formed the Austin School of Theology, which since grew into Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Images documenting 100-118 W. 8th Street from the Austin Files House Building Collection
Images documenting Airport Boulevard from the Austin Files House Building collection
Images documenting South Congress Avenue from the Austin Files House Building Collection