If you're coming to Austin on a whim and aren't operating on a specific timeframe, come for the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival or the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Historic neighborhoods also abound in Austin, from charming homes dating from the 1890s in Hyde Park to the grand estates of Tarrytown in West Austin. Austin's historic buildings include the State Capitol building, the Governor's Mansion, and charming homes dating back to the 1890s. On the next page, find out more about Austin's architecture and landmarks. Besides the showpiece of the State Capitol building -- definitely the most impressive, architecture-wise, in Austin -- Congress Avenue also boasts its share of beautiful old buildings. The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum (1800 North Congress Ave) is another must-see attraction, where visitors can get their fill of Texas history and have lunch at the museum's cafe. This fun museum features exhibits and interactive experiences that trace Texas history from before European exploration to the early 1970s. Don't miss the Star of Destiny theater show, visitors' seats shake while watching a gusher from a Texas oil derrick and the takeoff of a Saturn V rocket!
Foodies shouldn't miss a trip to the flagship Whole Foods Market (550 Bowie St) or to Austin's Central Market (4001 North Lamar). The food and wine festival is held each April and has featured foodies with Texas ties, like Bobby Flay and Drew Nieporent. The theater is officially open from early April until October. Austin is home to many great museums, including the city's newest crown jewel -- the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (MLK at Congress Avenue, on the University of Texas at Austin campus), which opened in April 2006 and is owned by the University of Texas. Head out to some quality live music at Speakeasy (412D Congress Ave), which features small wooden tables around a dance floor in a relaxed atmosphere in which young professionals grasp apple martinis listening to the sounds of jazz, blues, and ska. Until then, Bass Concert Hall (23rd St at Robert Dedman Dr), located on the University of Texas campus, continues to be the venue for Broadway musicals, classical music performances, dance performances, the Ballet Austin, and much more. Rising American opera performers in this venue. The Austin Lyric Opera (901 Barton Springs Rd) has won numerous awards for its lyrical presentations, which mainly take place at Bass Concert Hall inside the Performing Arts Building on the University of Texas at Austin campus.
Zilker Botanical Gardens (2220 Barton Springs Rd), is a relaxing place to meditate and enjoy the gardens, especially the Hartman Prehistoric Garden, located where dinosaur tracks were found in 1992, and the Green Garden, where local designers showcase native plants. The Zilker Hillside Theater in Zilker Park (2100 Barton Springs Rd) is a great place to watch drama, ballet, musicals, and symphony concerts for free during the summer under the stars. This very cool museum features tons of hands-on activities, science exhibits, and even an "Austin Kiddie Limits" soundstage where kids can dress up like rock stars and pretend they're part of the show. Even kids get into the act at the Austin Children's Museum and Dell Discovery Center. Although Ford built the Lincoln Continental to extremely high standards of body rigidity, annual testing revealed that after conversion, the limousines were even stronger. With the influx of high tech money from "Dellionaires" -- those early employees of Dell, Inc. who reaped the tremendous benefits of multiple stock splits -- other generous benefactors, and enthusiastic city and community support, Austin's arts scene has really exploded in recent years. Long-wheelbase formal sedans and limos had been cataloged from the marque's beginning in 1921 through 1942. Then for 1959 and 1960, professional-car builder Hess and Eisenhardt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was commissioned to convert limited numbers of those years' production Continentals into formal sedans and divider-window limousines, albeit on the standard 131-inch wheelbase.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (2313 Red River) features photos, sculptures, and portraits of Johnson's years as President, including a 7/8th scale replica of his Oval Office and the actual 1968 stretch limo he used in Washington and Austin. The Sixth Street Entertainment District (southeast of the Capitol Complex on Sixth St between Congress Ave and Interstate 35) is probably the most well-known when it comes to Austin nightlife, but head off the beaten path to explore the Fourth Street Warehouse District (west of Congress Ave and South of Sixth St) more of the 30-plus crowd, or the brand-new Second Street District (west of Congress Ave and South of Sixth St) with its upscale shops, restaurants, and condominium and loft projects. View contemporary and historical art about Mexican, Latino, and Latin American culture at Mexic-Arte Museum (419 Congress Ave), which is a non-profit arts organization. St. Edward's University (3001 South Congress) was designed by noted Texas architect Nicholas Clayton and completed in 1887. The school's Old Main Building was once deemed "one of the finest in all of Texas." In fact, a seven-block strip of renovated Victorian and native limestone buildings on East 6th Street between Congress Avenue and Interstate 35 is a National Registered Historic District.
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