10 Acres
Historic grounds that originally included gardens, fountains, recreational features and landscaped outdoor spaces.
Texas Historic Homes / Historic Austin
Commodore Perry Mansion & Estate
A historic Mediterranean-style estate built for Edgar Howard "Commodore" Perry and his wife Lutie in Austin, Texas.
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The Perry Estate
1928
Historic Mansion and Estate
Austin, Texas
Historic Austin Architecture
A Mansion from the Roaring Twenties
Commodore Perry and his wife, Lutie, built the mansion and estate now known as the Perry Estate in 1928. This 10,800 square foot home built on 10 acres symbolizes the optimism and extravagance of the "Great Gatsby" era known as the "Roaring 20's".
Commodore Perry Estate
A Remarkable Piece of Austin History
Mediterranean Villa
Designed by prominent Dallas architect Henry Bowers Thomson.
Edgar and Lutie Perry
The estate was originally built as the Perry family's residence and later served other purposes.
Edgar Howard Perry
1876
Caldwell, Texas
The Man Behind the Mansion
Edgar Howard "Commodore" Perry
Edgar Howard "Commodore" Perry was born in 1876 in Caldwell, Texas and graduated from Baylor University. Commodore Perry came to Austin in 1904. He started a very successful business shipping cotton from Taylor, Texas in Williamson County to Europe until 1929. He was also known as a long-time real estate developer in Austin who built the Commodore Perry Hotel (now an office building at 802 Brazos), developed the Highland Park West subdivision in northwest Austin, the Perry-Brooks Office Building, and was a partner in the Stephen F. Austin hotel downtown. This was a man that seems to have had endless energy and the ability to really make things happen in Austin until his passing in 1964.
Architecture and Landscape
A Mediterranean-Style Estate
Stories from the time report that Mr. Perry was playing golf at the Hancock Golf Course, then known as the Austin Country Club when he noticed the gravel pit across the street. Always mindful of improving the appearance of a community, he purchased the 10 acre site and hired the prominent Dallas architect, Henry Bowers Thomson.
The Mediterranean villa style mansion had a guest house, swimming pool, bowling alley, green house, six-car garage, a formal hillside garden with a marble fountain, and sunken garden with a mirror pool. Waller Creek flowed on the west side of the property.
Historic Mansion Details
Inside the Commodore Perry Mansion
The Perry Mansion greets you with numerous arches entering a long open-air porch called a loggia. Once in the front entrance, a long hallway opens into all the major rooms of the lower floor. On the right, the living room with a large limestone fireplace and then through ornate iron doorways is the solarium on the east end of the house.
On the left, the walnut-paneled formal dining room opens into the breakfast room and kitchen. There is an oval-shaped library located on the lower east area balanced by an oval spiral staircase room on the lower west side. The second floor includes a number of beautifully furnished bedrooms with fine inlaid details.
Historic Austin Estate
Ten Acres of Austin History
The mansion and surrounding grounds form an important part of Austin's architectural and landscape history.
This aerial photograph provides a view of the estate after its historic preservation and hotel development.
Historic Archive
2017
Original Development Announcement
June 2017
Texas Historic Homes Archive
The 2017 Estate Development Plans
The Austin American-Statesman reported in June 2017, that the Commodore Perry Estate will be developed into a 53-room luxury boutique hotel. The 1920's mansion has passed through several phases - first serving as the residence of the Perry family, the estate then served as a Catholic girls school, and mostly recently, a learning center for an Indian guru. While the original mansion will remain, two of the school buildings will be torn down to make room for the hotel. The mansion will continue to be used as a venue for weddings, receptions, and other public events.
We shall be eagerly waiting to see the results of the new development. If you're interested in learning more about purchasing a historic home in the greater Austin metro area or Central Texas, please don't hesitate to contact Betty Saenz today.
Historic Archive — June 2017
The text above is preserved from Betty's original 2017 article. It describes plans announced at that time, not the estate's current operational status. See the next section for the subsequent hotel opening.
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Estate Reopening
2020
Opened June 29, 2020
Commodore Perry Estate,
Auberge Collection
The Estate Today
A Historic Mansion Reimagined
The Commodore Perry Estate opened as an Auberge Collection luxury hotel on June 29, 2020.
The restored mansion and landscaped grounds are now part of a hotel and private-estate-style retreat in Austin's Hyde Park neighborhood.
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Search Homes for Sale NOWPhotography: Two original Commodore Perry Mansion photographs from Betty Saenz's Texas Historic Homes archive (2017). Aerial photograph by TerraFrost, CC BY 4.0. Aerial image cropped for the page layout. Current hotel information: Auberge Collection's June 29, 2020 announcement.
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