Little has changed with the Austin Chronicle building over the years, but we're in the path of an expanded I-35. So ...
What the Elgin-Butler Brick Co. office looked like when it was shiny and new. The intensive historic resource survey conducted on our building noted that very little has changed in the intervening 65 years., at 4000 N. I-35 in the Hancock neighborhood, is slated to be acquired by TxDOT as part of the wider right-of-way the agency will need to fit the mainlanes, managed lanes, and frontage roads below where the to-be-demolished upper deck now stands.
The company moved its production to Elgin – away from its yards south of the river at what is still called Butler Shores, along Toomey Road – in the 1940s, where it remains. Its offices at 13th and Congress were acquired by the state in the 1950s for the future expansion of the Capitol Complex, at which time they built our building near the northern city limits, along what was then the Interregional Highway.
According to the 62-page report on the building included as part of the environmental impact study, the structure is historically significant on a number of National Register criteria: the importance of the brick company as a business; the importance of the Butler family ; and as"a locally rare example of a post-World War II Contemporary office that is reflective of its time and serves as a showcase for the EBBC's innovative products," all still in good condition and at its...
And yet, right now, TxDOT's plan is to demolish it.
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