2," on 2 June 1960 the plant was renamed posthumously for Walter E. Seaholm, a prominent figure in the administration of Austin's municipal utilities.

[2] Seaholm served as Austin's sole source of electric power from 1950 to 1959, until demand outpaced the 120 megawatts the plant could generate with all five boilers running.

[6] The interior of the turbine generator building was converted to a mixture of office, retail and restaurant space, with tenants occupying the facility beginning in 2015.

The exterior surface of the building is of structural cast-in-place reinforced concrete, punctuated by two south-facing doors and numerous large industrial windows.

[9] The water intake structure sits on the shore of Lady Bird Lake directly south of the turbine generator building.

The south face of the building rises two stories above the lake, with ten sluice gates through which cooling water for the plant's steam condensers was taken in.