I shot this yesterday from the Headliners Club on the 21st floor of the Chase building. When this building (The Norwood Tower on 7th between Colorado and Congress) was built in the twenties (it debuted in 1929) it was the tallest building in Austin. You saw it being dedicated as a Texas Historic Place here and you can get a closer look at the front here.A couple of things to note about this photo. There is a new Perry's Steakhouse (a chain apparently) on the first floor below the parking structure. And part of the block across the street is vacant. During one boom time, that was going to be a very small footprint hotel. It never got built.
Hope I'm not boring everyone with skyline pictures. I'll do something different tomorrow. But we will continue to explore the skyline, both the historic and unchanging and the quickly evolving new stuff.
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