one half mile east of the city center (which included a home that is now known as The French Legation). Robertson and his son, George L. Robertson, began actively subdividing the family property and selling lots. This region (which includes the Southgate–Lewis House) became known as Robertson Hill. College Street in 1873 The "Bird's Eye View of the City of Austin," shown herein, was created by Augustus Koch in 1873. The map provides an interesting historical perspective for our modern day consideration of the Southgate–Lewis House, on many different levels of analysis. The Southgate–Lewis House was constructed only 15 years after this map was created. In 1888 the population of Austin was somewhere between 10 and 15 thousand people. In comparison, the population of San Francisco at that time, where comparable houses were quite common, was a little under 300,000. Judging from this old map, Congress Avenue and College Street were the main streets of Austin; both streets converge upon (or radiate out from) what was the center of the city at that point in time – namely, the State Capitol Building. College Street was a large street (a main street) leading directly from the center of the State Capital Building up into the Robertson Hill area, where homes were being constructed. The only comparable street heading east is the street near Cherry Street, which to this day leads up the hill into the Oakwood Cemetery. The point is: This "Bird's Eye View" reveals that College Street was a main street. The Southgate–Lewis House was constructed on this main street. Street names change On September 21, 1886, the street names in Austin were changed to numbers and College Street became 12th Street. Further, Congress Avenue was designated as the dividing line for naming the numbered streets East vs West. The Southgate–Lewis House is located at 1501 East 12th Street. John Southgate John Southgate was a bookbinder and publisher in Austin, Texas with a business at 1008 Congress Avenue, right next door to Charles Lundberg's Bakery at 1006 Congress Avenue, only a few steps away from the Texas State Capital building. Southgate had more than thirty years of experience working in both England as well as in the United States, in establishments such as Daniel Appleton & Company (a firm which was founded in 1825 and whose successor lives on as Appleton-Century-Crofts). In the late 1800s the Austin American Statesman made