Aynesworth-Wright House
N of Austin at 11693 Research Blvd., Austin, TXThis early Greek Revival-style residence was built around 1852 by pioneer cabinet maker and itinerate Baptist preacher Isaiah Aynesworth for his family soon after their arrival in Texas. The Aynesworths sold the home and land in 1855 to Dr. Joseph Wright, one of Austin's earliest physicians and the surveyor for the layout of the University of Texas campus in Austin, whose family occupied the house until 1940. As one of the oldest remaining homes in the Austin-Travis County area, the structure is significant not only for the architectural style and building techniques employed in an earlier time, but also as a representation through its history of two different types of early Austin pioneer.
Bibliography
Ainsworth, Isaiah H., Austin American, February 25, 1929, Vol. 11, no. 232.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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