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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOF_walter-and-mae-simms-house_Austin-TX.html
Austin architect Roger Q. Small designed this unique 1935 home for Walter and Mae (Moore) Simms, who established Simms Fish Market in 1915 and delivered gulf coast seafood to hotels and restaurants throughout central Texas for nearly forty years. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHP3_walter-tips-house_Austin-TX.html
This two-story Victorian house was built in 1876 for the family of Walter Tips (1841-1911), a prosperous hardware merchant. A native of Germany and Confederate veteran, Tips served in the state senate, 1893-96. The home was remodeled in 1909 to it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLA_saint-edwards-university-main-building_Austin-TX.html
Erected in 1888. Rebuilt after fire in 1903. Nicholas J. Clayton, master architect, designed both building in Gothic revival style.
Serves institution founded in 1873 by congregation of Holy Cross, as male catholic school. First pupils were loc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDF_millbrook-roy-hardin-house_Austin-TX.html
William Carroll "Cal" Roy (1851-1916) and Annie (Stanley) Roy (1851-1925) bought this Bouldin mill site in 1894 from Powhatan Bouldin, heir of James E. Bouldin (1796-1876), the original owner. It was converted into a home, and here the Roy's reare…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHCZ_mary-street-stone-house_Austin-TX.html
This residence is one of several erected in south Austin during the 1890's by Developer Nichols Dawson (1864-1939). Constructed of stone quarried in the vicinity, the small houses were similar in design, with Hexagonal front bays. Dawson's partner…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH5W_doyle-farm_Austin-TX.html
Arrival on Sept. 21, 1874, of two brothers of Holy Crossat theDoyle FarmJames Doyle (1795?-1866). A native of Ireland, came to Texas in 1835. He was a stonemason, and in 1853 had charge of part of the work on the limestone Capitol being built in A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH55_old-i-v-davis-homestead_Austin-TX.html
On land granted by Mexico in 1835, just before Texas Revolution, this house was built in 1875. Owner Isaac Van Zandt Davis (1843-1897) worked in the General Land Office. Greek revival style home has 22" thick walls of stone quarried at Oak Hill.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH2F_texas-dental-association_Austin-TX.html
This professional association traces its history to 1869, when a group of dentists met in Houston and drafted a constitution and by-laws. Dr. Menard Michau of Houston was elected first president of the association, which was officially chartered b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH22_green-pastures_Austin-TX.html
This Victorian home, located on the 1835 Isaac Decker Grant, was built in 1894-95 by Dr. E. W. Herndon and sold in 1912 to Judge W. W. Burnett. It became the residence in 1916 of lawyer Henry Faulk (1867-1939), his wife Martha (Miner) (1878-1957),…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH01_texas-school-for-the-deaf_Austin-TX.html
In 1856, the Texas Legislature established the Texas Deaf and Dumb Asylum, which became the Texas School for the Deaf (TSD). Gov. Elisha M. Pease appointed a board of trustees, which rented land at this site. By January 1, 1857, the first day of s…