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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QJ9_austin-state-hospital-cemetery_Austin-TX.html
Established 1882
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2002
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DCH_petrified-forest-lodge_Austin-TX.html
In the 1930's, J.S. and Alta Woodard built one of Austin's first tourist courts on the northern portion of this site. It was designed by local architect, Hugo Kuehne. Encased in petrified wood from Glen Rose, Texas, the 10 unit lodge appeared as a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRV_williams-weigl-house_Austin-TX.html
This c. 1911 home is associated with two important Austin families. New York native Harvey Murdock Williams, a bookkeeper at Ramsey Nursery, and his wife, Euphemia (Sinclair), built the house. In the early 1940s, it passed to their son, Harvey Sin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQY_wells-larue-house_Austin-TX.html
Built about 1850 by famed pioneer architect Abner Cook, for Waymen Wells, who lived 10 miles north, but needed town house for business and pleasure trips. His grandchildren, the LaRues, moved in to attend school sessions. Third generation now live…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM7_the-shipe-house_Austin-TX.html
Monroe Martin Shipe (b. 1847) had this residence built in 1892 in Austin's Hyde Park, a suburb which he developed on the site of the old state fairgrounds. A man of broad vision, Shipe brought innovative changes to the city's form of government, i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDS_elisabet-ney_Austin-TX.html
World-renowned sculptor; lived 35 years in Texas, where she executed works of many noted citizens.
Born in Muenster, Westphalia, Germany, Elisabet grew up beautiful, talented, and self-willed. At 19 she began to study at the Academy of Arts, Mu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH9Z_kopperl-house_Austin-TX.html
Built in 1896 at a cost of $4,200, this home was purchased the same year by sportswoman Loula Dale Kopperl (1861-1919). She and her husband Morris lived here prior to their divorce in 1912, and she continued to occupy the home until her death. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH90_hodnette-house_Austin-TX.html
A rare and important example of the Craftsman Aesthetic designed by prominent Austin architect Charles H. Page Sr., this house was built in 1909 for Austin businessman Milton Hodnette. Horizontal emphasis, broad overhanging eaves, a generous porch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3F_austin-state-hospital_Austin-TX.html
While Texas was a frontier state and psychiatry a pioneer venture, the Texas Legislature in 1856 created this hospital for the mentally ill; in 1925, named Austin State Hospital.
Oldest Texas mental hospital.
Construction began in 1857. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1V_philquist-wood-house_Austin-TX.html
Sweden native Sven Axel Philquist, local district clerk and later clerk of the Texas Supreme Court, hired Swedish builder F. Oscar Blomquist to build this family home in 1912. Following several subsequent owners, grocer Sam Wood purchased the hous…