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Sixth Street (Austin, Texas)

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operated by blacks and catered to Austin's black community. By the early 20th century, racial and ethnic diversity had become one of Sixth Street's most striking characteristics. Lebanese businesses also began to appear on 6th Street in the 1890s. One of the first Lebanese immigrants to Austin, Cater Joseph, opened a confectionery on Congress in the 1880s. The Joseph family still maintains a business on East 6th Street, as do several other Lebanese and Syrian families who founded businesses there in the early 20th century. By 1940, businesses on 6th Street were owned by blacks, Jewish, German, Chinese, and Mexican-Americans, as well.
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One of the last residents on Sixth Street was local architect David Graeber. Graeber purchased the building at 410 E. 6th Street and made it his family's residence until he died in 2010. The building is notable as the last building on Sixth Street to be used exclusively as a primary residence. The
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building was being built at the head of Congress and most businesses catering to city-dwellers and/or a state government clientele moved to a Congress location. Sixth Street, though, continued to function as a site for offices, warehouses, and showrooms of businesses using the railroad, as well as to
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Since May 2014, a parking ban is enforced from Thursday evening to Saturday night inside the entertainment district (Interstate 35 to San Jacinto Street) which ends at 2 a.m. past midnight which is defined as a Sunday based on the 24 hour clock) - plans to make the Sixth Street district vehicle free
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A biracial character was evident along Sixth Street during this period of development, although it became more pronounced in the 1890s and early 1900s. For example, a black physician had an office in the 300 block of East Sixth, and several businesses on the north side of the 400 and 500 blocks were
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While the Civil War interrupted Sixth Street's growth in the 1860s, the following years were the height of Sixth Street's importance as a commercial center. The arrival of the railroad in 1871 was very much to Sixth Street's benefit, as some of Austin's most prestigious business enterprises were
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The town grew like a cross up and down Congress and Pecan. Pecan had an obvious advantage for development. The street was far enough from the river to escape flooding, which occasionally spread as far as Cypress Street (3rd Street), and it was the last east–west street flat enough for wagons and
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followed this route when it arrived in Austin in 1840, and used the Bullock Hotel at the northwest corner of Pecan and Congress as the stage stop. The Bullock, built in 1839 by Richard Bullock, was a complex of log building which served as the quasiformal and informal meeting place in Austin for
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In 1978, the Pecan Street Festival was started and included local food and art vendors along with bands from the surrounding area, establishing a community event for cultural preservation and creativity. Due to the festival's positive turnout, the celebration became a biannual spring and fall
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commercial structures began to line the streets where one-story frame buildings or vacant lots had been. In 1887, a new, larger bridge across Shoal Creek was built to match the full 80-foot (24 m) width of Sixth Street and permit wagons to cross; this
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and downtown was scarcely populated, with abandoned buildings scattered about. A pioneering group of Austinites, including Dr. Emma Lou Linn, known as the Old Pecan Street Association, was instrumental in reclaiming the downtown space and starting
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The area of Sixth Street west of Lavaca is known as the West 6th Street District. Recently, a movement has been growing to develop this area as an entertainment district of its own, geared toward the live-music crowd.
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houses, but also was lined with wagon yards, livery stables, and saloons to meet the needs of travelers. Austin's first bridge was built to carry Pecan Street across Shoal Creek in 1865, though the narrow iron
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announced that they would be relocating their downtown cinema, which was the original theater opened in 1997, to the Ritz. They began construction on April 1, 2007, to revive the Ritz as a movie theater.
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department store, founded on the southwest corner of 6th and Congress in 1893, decided to remain in this same location in 1909 when it undertook the construction of Austin's first modern skyscraper; the
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tradition, honoring 6th Street's original name, Pecan Street. In the past, the event has attracted more than 300,000 people, generating an economic impact around $ 43 million in 2010.
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style. George Littlefield chose the northeast corner of that intersection in 1911 for a 9-story brick and limestone building to be built to house his American Bank.
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on December 30, 1975. Developed as one of Austin's trade and commercial districts in the late 1800s, the predominant building style are two- or three-story masonry
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of the old buildings. The association needed adequate funding for restoration costs and bringing a street fair to life was a solution to their problems.
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During the late 1880s, however, Congress Avenue began to pre-empt Sixth Street as the most fashionable shopping destination in the city. The new
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pedestrians to travel comfortably. Following an explosive growth in town population between 1850 and 1860, Pecan soon contained not only
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A steady erosion of the commercial importance of the East 6th Street area occurred in the 1940s and particularly accelerated after
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under Austin's older naming convention, which had east–west streets named after trees and north–south streets named after
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located here to be near the railroad depot. Lots along the street were in great demand and fine two- and three-story
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building's interior was modern for the time, including an indoor swimming pool, and substantial sound mitigation.
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East Sixth Street (known locally as Dirty Sixth) plays host to a wide variety of events each year, ranging from
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was considered prior to a SXSW '14 drunk driving incident back in March where several pedestrians were struck.
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The area around nearby 4th Street and 6th Street has been a major entertainment district since the 1970s. Many
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was completed at 122 E. 6th Street. Called "the finest hotel south of St. Louis", the hotel was built in a
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is still in use today, and has since been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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several years. That particular intersection quickly became the focal point of town life.
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The nine-block area of West Sixth Street roughly between Lavaca Street to the west and
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The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the
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to the east is recognized as the Sixth Street Historic District and was listed in the
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businesses catering to farmers or other travelers. In 1886, the famous four-story
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was charted in 1839 and chose the route into Austin along Pecan Street. The
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venues, and shopping destinations are located on West 6th Street between
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from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
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Austin was planned on a 15-block grid plan developed by
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Roughly bounded by 5th, 7th, Lavaca Streets and I-35,
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National Register of Historic Places in Austin, Texas
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database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
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George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
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Early Commercial, Classical Revival, Late Victorian
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Austin, Texas
30°16′2″N 97°44′23″W / 30.26722°N 97.73972°W / 30.26722; -97.73972
75002132
Austin, Texas
downtown Austin
Texas rivers
Interstate 35
National Register of Historic Places
Victorian
commercial architecture
Driskill Hotel
Scarbrough Building
bars
clubs
music
Congress Avenue
Interstate 35
music
film festivals
South by Southwest
biker
The Republic of Texas Biker Rally
Pecan Street Festival
Edwin Waller
Congress Avenue
Bastrop
East Texas

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