Brown Building (Austin, Texas)

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Brown Building

| image = BrownBldg-Jul2010-b.JPG

| caption =

| location = 710 Colorado St
Austin, Texas, USA

| nearest_city =

| coordinates = {{coord|30|16|12|N|97|44|38|W|display=inline,title}}

| built = 1938

| architect=C.H. Page & Son

| architecture= Moderne

| added = April 24, 1997

| refnum=97000364{{NRISref|2010a}}

| governing_body =

| designated_other1=RTHL

| designated_other1_date=2013

| designated_other1_number=[http://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5507017512 17512]

| designated_other1_num_position= bottom

}}

The Brown Building is a ten-story office and residential tower in Downtown Austin, Texas. It is {{convert|137|ft}} tall. Completed in 1938 at the southwest corner of 8th Street and Colorado Street, the building was home to many significant companies throughout 20th century Austin, including the holding corporation for the Lyndon Johnson family. The Texas Broadcasting Corporation (KTBC) operated from the building for many years around World War II, counting among its employees humorist Cactus Pryor and future governor John Connally. The engineering company Brown & Root also had its headquarters in the Brown Building at one time.{{cite journal |last1=Russell |first1=Jan Jarboe |title=Luci in the Sky |journal=Texas Monthly |date=March 1998 |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/luci-in-the-sky/ |access-date=31 March 2021}}

The building was renovated and converted to high-end lofts in the early 2000s. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The building bears the name of its developer, businessman and philantropist, Herman Brown.{{cite web|accessdate=1 March 2025|url=https://supportlocalaustin.com/downtown-austin/brown-building/

|title=Brown Building |first=Doreen |last=Zelma|date=April 8, 2010

|quote=Built in 1940, the building is named after its original developer, Herman Brown, who was a prominent businessman in Texas.}}{{cite web|accessdate=March 1, 2025|url=https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-AU24|title=Brown Building

|via=Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)|author1=Moorehead, Gerald|display-authors=etal|work=SAH Archipedia|editor1-last=Esperdy |editor1-first=Gabrielle|editor2-last=Kingsley|editor2-first=Karen|year=2012|publisher=published for the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) by the University of Virginia Press}}