Site of Haynie-Cook House
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N 30° 16.432 W 097° 44.560
14R E 620937 N 3349802
The historic marker for the site of the Haynie-Cook House on Colorado Street in Austin TX
Waymark Code: WMTENZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/12/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member WTT-B2
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The historic marker for the site of the Haynie-Cook House is located at 1122 Colorado Street in Austin TX.
Marker Number: 16346

Marker Text:
In 1852, noted Austin architect Abner Cook (1814-1884) built a home here for Dr Samuel Garner Haynie (1806-1877), who was elected Mayor of Austin four times (1850, 1851, 1863, and 1864). Cook, who was also working on the 1852-1854 Texas State Capitol around the same time, built the house with a Federal design, containing Greek Revival elements, The front façade featured a two-story portico with a pair of fluted Ionic columns flanked by outer Doric piers. Because of financial difficulties, Haynie was forced to sell the house to Cook shortly after its completion. The Cook family moved into the home by 1860 and lived there until Cook’s widow, Eliza (Logan) sold the property to former Austin Mayor Leander Brown in 1885. Brown occupied the home until he subdivided and sold the block in 1889. The Haynie-Cook House was eventually rolled on logs to the southern half of the block, Fannie M. Andrews operated a shop out of it from 1910 to 1953. The northern half of the block was obtained by Joseph Nalle around 1903; his son, Ernest, built a home on the site and lived there until World War I. Nelson Philips, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, lived in the house from 1914 until 1920, when Nalle returned to the home, In 1933, Judge John H. Sharp, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, bought the property. By 1953 both the Haynie-Cook Home and Nalle-Sharp House were demolished. The Lumbermen’s Association acquired this property for the Westgate, a residential-office high-rise designed in 1962. Today, the property remains a focal point of downtown Austin. (2010) Marker is property of the state of Texas


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