Austin's institutions

Austin is home to the beautiful Texas State Capitol. It is very beautiful and ornate inside and was actually built (1888) over a decade before oil was discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas (1901) , unlike Pennsylvania's similar and perhaps more ornate state capitol(1906), which was built over a decade after the peak of Pennsylvania's oil production (1891).

Austin is also home to the University of Texas, with is own very handsome 305-foot restrained-Beaux-Arts "Texas Tower", which is a part of their Main Building. Other Universities with towers include Moscow State University with an imposing 787-foot Socialist Classicist/Stalin's Empire Style tower, the tallest building in Europe until 1990, and the University of Pittsburgh's 535-foot gothic Cathedral of Learning. I can attest that the Cathedral of Learning is really quite beautiful inside.