Woodlawn (Austin, Texas)
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Woodlawn
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Woodlawn in 2006.
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| Location | 1606 Niles Rd Austin, Texas, USA |
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| Coordinates | 30°17′14″N 97°45′29″W / 30.28722°N 97.75806°WCoordinates: 30°17′14″N 97°45′29″W / 30.28722°N 97.75806°W |
| Built | 1853 |
| Architect | Abner Cook |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 70000772 |
| RTHL # | 15303 |
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| Added to NRHP | August 25, 1970 |
| Designated RTHL | 1962 |
Woodlawn, also known as the Pease Mansion as well as Governor Shiver's Mansion, is a pre-Civil War mansion located at 30.2871° -97.7581° in Austin, Texas. The Greek Revival style house was owned by two Texas governors. Some notable people that have visited the mansion include Sam Houston, General George Custer, Elisabet Ney, Will Rogers, and Edith Head. Woodlawn was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1970.
The site of Woodlawn originally consisted of 365 acres (1.48 km2) in West Austin. Then Texas State Comptroller James Shaw commissioned master builder Abner H. Cook (who also designed the Texas Governor's Mansion) to build a house for him and his fiancee. Shaw's fiancee later broke off the engagement, but Shaw soon found another woman that he married and they lived in the house, which was completed in 1853.
Tragedy struck when Shaw's child died at the age of two and his wife died a few months later. Shaw sold the estate to Texas governor Elisha M. Pease and his wife Lucadia Christiane Niles Pease in 1857 and Shaw moved to Galveston. The Peases named the estate Woodlawn. Pease developed most of the land surrounding Woodlawn into the present-day neighborhood of Enfield.
Four generations of the Pease family lived at Woodlawn until 1957 when Niles Graham sold the house and its three remaining acres to outgoing Texas governor Allan Shivers and his wife Marialice Shary Shivers. The Shivers moved into Woodlawn on January 15, 1957, almost 100 years to the day when the Peases first moved into Woodlawn.
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