Westgate Tower, High-rise residential tower near Texas State Capitol, Austin, United States.
Westgate Tower is a 26-story residential high-rise featuring reinforced concrete construction with a brown brick exterior and floor-to-ceiling windows. The structure displays mid-century modern design principles with functional, straightforward proportions typical of 1960s residential architecture.
Built in 1966 as Austin's first residential high-rise, this tower marked the beginning of vertical residential development in the city. Its construction prompted discussions that ultimately led to protective Capitol View Corridors regulations.
The building housed the Headliners' Club on its twenty-fourth floor from 1966 to 1975, where Texas politicians and academics gathered for social events. This gathering space shaped the local social and professional networks of the era.
The tower stands across the street from the west gate of the Texas State Capitol, on a sloping lot: the second and third floors open at street level on the east and west elevations respectively. A parking garage fills the fourth through ninth floors, and the rooftop pool area sits on the twenty-sixth floor.
The tower's 24th floor housed the Headliners' Club, a social club for leading Texas politicians and academics, from the building's opening in 1966 until 1975. State legislator A. R. Schwartz, who lived in the tower, had backed the unsuccessful 1965 bill to stop its construction.
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