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Today, it serves as the Capitol Visitors Center, offering exhibits and tours about the Texas State Capitol. There is also a Texas Department of Transportation Travel Center that offers free maps and literature on travel destinations throughout the state. The building was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1962 and listed on the ...
The current Texas State Capitol is the fourth building to serve that purpose in Austin. The first was a two-room wooden structure (located on the northeast corner of 8th St and Colorado St) which served as the national capitol of the Texas Republic and continued as the seat of government upon Texas' admission to the Union.
The Texas State Preservation Board is a state agency that maintains the Texas Capitol, the General Land Office Building (now the Texas Capitol Visitor's Center), and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. [1] It has its headquarters in the Sam Houston State Office Building in Downtown Austin. [2] The 68th Legislature of Texas established ...
Part of the University of Texas at Austin, exhibits of history from its collections [191] Bullock Texas State History Museum: Austin Travis Texas history [192] Capitol Visitors Center: Austin Travis Exhibits about state history, tours of the Texas State Capitol [193] Christian-Green Gallery Austin Travis [194] The Contemporary Austin: Austin Travis
Congress Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Austin, Texas.The street is a six-lane, tree lined avenue that cuts through the middle of the city from far south Austin and goes over Lady Bird Lake leading to the Texas State Capitol in the heart of Downtown.
The Ten Commandments Monument is installed on the Texas State Capitol grounds (behind the Capitol building) in Austin, Texas, United States. The Texas Sunset Red Granite artwork was designed by an unknown artist and erected by the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Texas in 1961. [1] It was the subject of litigation in the Supreme Court case Van Orden v.