SELECTED
VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTIN
Are these buildings True to Nature? Are they True to Nature according to Ruskin? Can the influence of his essay be detected in these buildings? Can you find his six features of Gothic in them? What sentences are illustrated by what features? What sentences are contradicted by what features?
Campus
Littlefield
House 300 West 24th, 1893, James Wahrenberger
Old Main, 1883,
replaced by the tower
Downtown Area
St. Davids Episcopal Church 300 East 7th.
1850?
St. Marys Cathedral 201
East 10th, at Brazos, 1873-1884, Nicholas Clayton
Tips Building 708 Congress, 1876
Driskill Hotel,
117 E. 7Th, 1885, J. N. Preston
see also http://www.driskillhotel.com/
1880 Post Office 126 W. 6Th, restored by U.T.
Hirshfeld
Mansion 305 West 9th, 1886
North-Evans
Chateau 708 San Antonio, Alfred Giles
The Bremond Block:
6 homes built by the same family
Houghton
House, 307 W. 12th, 1880s-1890s
Butler House,
303 W. 11th, 1880s-1890s, now a parking lot
Travis County
Courthouse, 1876-1930
Neoclassical Contrasts
Other
Neoclassical Examples Downtown
Victorian Architecture West
of campus
Texas Military
Institute 1111 West 11th St. 1870.
Colonel Edward M House house, 1704 West Ave,
1891, Frank Freeman
Daniel H Caswell
house, 1404 West Ave, 1900
Main Bldg, St.
Edwards Univ., 1885, Nicholas Clayton
Walter Tips
house, moved from W. 7Th to S. Congress by Franklin Savings. 1876
Elizabeth Ney
Museum, 304 E. 44Th, 1892
W. J. Oliphant
Home, Hyde Park area, 1894
Fredricksburg:
White Elephant
Saloon, 242 East Main, 1888
Bank of
Fredericksburg, 120 East Main St., 1897
St. Marys
Catholic Church, 1861
Gillespie
County Courthouse, Public Square, 1881, Alfred Giles
Georgetown:
Admin. Bldg, Southwestern Univ., E. 12Th, 1898, Robert Hyer
Giddings: Lee
County Courthouse, Public Sq., 1898, J Riely Gordon
Gruene: the
Gruene house
New Braunfels:
Comal County Courthouse, San Antonion and Sequin, 1898, J Riely Gordon
