Austin’s historic Baker School finds new life as a hub for the creative community

Vendors offering everything from handmade ceramic cactus lamps to perfectly worn-in vintage T-shirts to freshly baked pop tarts lined the courtyard and filled the mint-green cafetorium of the old Baker School last Saturday.

“There’s a lot of big markets, and I feel like this one feels more eclectically Austin,” one shopper mused, “a little more grassroots.”

The first-ever Hyde Park Holiday Market gave hundreds of Austinites a peek inside the former Austin ISD school now known as the Baker Center…

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