One of three architectural elements above the Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin, Texas

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Two of the friezes are inscribed with the dates 1885 and 1915. Between them is a frieze with the name Joseph Nalle. The theater was built in 1915, but the 1885 date inscribed over the windows shows the date the Nalle family acquired the property. Nalle was mayor of Austin while the building was being constructed (by him; he was a builder as well as politician), but the theater was the idea of his son, Ernest. It opened on October 11, 1915.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.