U.S. Courthouse (former) – Austin, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 16.234 W 097° 44.637
14R E 620818 N 3349435
The Austin U.S. Courthouse (former) is an excellent example of Depression-era Moderne architecture.
Waymark Code: WMNZ3N
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2015
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The building’s most famous tenant arrived in the 1940s when Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the office of U.S. Congressman from Texas’s 10th district upon the death of Congressman Buchanan. As a U.S. congressman, Johnson moved into a suite of second-floor offices in the southwest wing, which he kept until 1949, when he became a U.S. senator. He then moved his offices to the first floor of the wing and remained there until after the beginning of his vice presidency in 1961.
A new courthouse was built in 2012 and this old courthouse is currently vacant.
Project type: Government building (non-park)
Date built or created: 1936 (completed)
Location: Travis County Courthouse in Austin, TX
City: Austin
Condition: In need of renovation/repair
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