Landmark
Rainey Street Historic District
Row of early-twentieth-century bungalows turned into bars, patios and curbside food trucks.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Rainey Street Historic District in Austin turns on a night in two thousand nine, when bar owner Bridget Dunlap stood in front of a peeling, run-down bungalow and saw something the quiet street had not had before. You will hear how the neighborhood of nineteen-tens craftsman houses, protected since nineteen eighty-five as historic, was quietly reopened to commercial use, and what moved in: bars poured into old front rooms, and some of Austin's earliest food trucks parked curbside beside them.
This audio guide was created using AI.