You are here

Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast » Central Texas » Austin, Texas » Capitol Area » Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

-A A +A
2001, E. Verner Johnson and Associates. 1800 N. Congress Ave.
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )

One of the most recent state buildings, the museum chose a prominent location near the Blanton Museum of Art ( AU41.6) at the University of Texas. Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock began the effort to establish a state history museum in 1997. The Boston firm of E. Verner Johnson and Associates was also the architect for the Boston Museum of Science and the Grand Rapids Public Museum. With an arcade of Texas granite wrapping around a copper-domed rotunda, the 175,000-square-foot museum gives the impression of a Roman bath.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Blanton Museum of Art
Carrington-Covert House
Littlefield Memorial Fountain
Texas Supreme Court Building
Battle Hall (University Library)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum", [Austin, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-AU10.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,