While digging up the history of what's changed and what hasn't on our city's most famous street a few months ago, I stumbled upon a handful of articles from the Austin American-Statesman detailing a 1976 proposal for significant modifications to Congress Avenue. The plan was presented to city leaders by John Andrew Gallery, then the dean of the University of Texas School of Architecture.
I contacted Gallery -- who now lives in Philadelphia and has spent a large portion of . . .