Downtown Austin Historic Walking Tours – Cool Things To Do In Austin
Would you like to know more about the history of Austin? Here are two free guided-walking tours of downtown Austin that will help you explore.
They start at the south entrance of the Capitol building…
“The best way to discover downtown Austin’s historic treasures is on foot. When you take this historic walking tour, you’ll follow in the footsteps of governors and presidents, cattle barons, and bankers, merchants, and artists, preachers and gamblers, murderers, and prostitutes,and maybe a ghost or two. The ten-block Congress Avenue National Register District is the Main Street of Texas with its wide, impressive route to the Capitol Building. Threads of the past are intricately woven into the fabric of the city’s future as faithfully restored 19th-century buildings coexist with gleaming, 20th-century high-rises.
“The 10-block Congress Avenue and nine-block Sixth Street (Pecan Street) National Register Districts interweave modern skyscrapers with 19th century buildings such as the Old Bakery (1876), Millett Opera House (1878), Driskill Hotel (1886), Walter Tips Building (1876) and Robinson-Rosner Building (1856). Historic structures such as St. Mary’s Cathedral (1874) and St. David’s Church (1854) reflect Old World architecture.”
The Historic Congress Avenue & Sixth Street tour times are 9am Thursday through Saturday and 2pm on Sunday and require a reservation 48 hours in advance.
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If you are interested in Victorian-era high society, take a stroll through the Bremond Block Historic District, a collection of homes belonging to members of the John Bremond, Sr. family.
Walking Tours take place at 11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays and require a 48 hour advance reservation.
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If you prefer to take a self guided tour, you can do that too. There is one of historic Hyde Park, one of Austin’s oldest neighborhoods, or the Texas State Cemetery, where many Texas heroes are buried. There is even a tour of the West Austin area.
If you’d like to see historic Austin at your own pace or to make a reservation for a guided tour just stop by the Austin Visitor Center to pick up brochures, or you can call 866-GO-AUSTIN.
Download Congress Avenue/East 6th St. Walking Tour Brochure
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