West University
West University is a locality in Austin, Travis, Texas. West University is situated nearby to the neighborhood Hemphill Park, as well as near the locality University of Texas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Neill–Cochran House and Texas State Capitol.
Neill–Cochran House
Museum
The Neill–Cochran House Museum is a historic home in north-central Austin, Texas. Master builder Abner Cook designed and built the house in 1855 as a suburban estate many years before the surrounding area was settled by other homes and businesses.
Texas State Capitol
Government building
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The Texas State Capitol is the capitol and seat of government of the U.S. state of Texas. Located in downtown Austin, Texas, the structure houses the offices and chambers of the Texas Legislature and of the Governor of Texas.
Harry Ransom Center
Museum
The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include UT and the Drag and Bryker Woods.
UT and the Drag
The University of Texas and the Drag form a district of Austin. This article also covers the "West Campus" and "North University" neighborhoods.
Bryker Woods
Neighborhood
Bryker Woods is an older Austin, Texas, central city neighborhood developed in the 1930s, the center of which is approximately located at. It is predominantly a mix of young and old families and zoned as a single-family neighborhood composed of mostly small homes in good condition, most of which are over 50 years old.
Hyde Park
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Hyde Park is a district in Austin, Texas about a mile north of the University of Texas. It is known in Austin for being the earliest significant residential development outside the old nineteenth-century downtown city core, for containing some interesting old houses, and for being a bastion of political liberalism.
West University
- Type: Locality
- Location: Austin, Travis, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.29183° or 30° 17′ 31″ northLongitude
-97.7453° or 97° 44′ 43″ westElevation
617 feet (188 metres)Open location code
862477R3+PVGeoNames ID
11789130
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