Last year, Austin’s Clarksville neighborhood accompanied 38 others around\u00a0the globe, with featured communities heralded for their old-school roots, combination of arts, culture and architecture, cuisine as well as independent businesses. Landing at No. 33 on the list, Clarksville was the only neighborhood from Texas to earn a coveted spot among the rankings. Located west of downtown Austin, freedman Charles Clark founded the Clarksville Historic District back in 1871, with the area considered the oldest surviving freedman’s community west of the Mississippi River.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That history has since been memorialized courtesy the Hezikiah Haskell House, a property built by freedman Peter Tucker and his wife, Betty, in 1875. Those historic architectural details remain on display within the neighborhood, Time Out noted, with original facades marrying together with modern architectural elements in a “balancing act of preservation and progress.”<\/p>\n
“Clarksville is shaking off its sleepy image,” Time Out wrote. “While live-oak-lined streets and multi-million-dollar cottages, along with the culinary institution Jeffrey\u2019s, have been here for decades, local brands and new bars like Howard\u2019s have been inviting more to cross North Lamar.”<\/p>\n
Just four U.S. neighborhoods received nods in this year’s roundup:<\/p>\n
Better luck next year, y’all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Austin’s Clarksville neighborhood accompanied 38 others around\u00a0the globe, with featured communities heralded for their old-school roots,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,2527,820],"class_list":["post-455393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaaustin","tag-mysalifestyle","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}