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Commodore Perry Estate
Austin, Texas, United States · Auberge Resorts · Grand Luxury
Ken Fulk's interiors bring a fresh chapter to this 1928 Mediterranean-style estate on ten acres in Austin. The 54-room Auberge retreat opened in 2020 around the original mansion and gardens, with Lutie's Garden Restaurant named for Lutie Perry, Edgar Howard Perry's wife; Two MICHELIN Keys followed in 2025.
- 54 rooms
- Opened 2020
- Neighborhood: Hyde Park
- Rooms from 400 sq ft (37 m²)
- Interiors: Ken Fulk
About Commodore Perry Estate
- Folk singer Nanci Griffith attended school on the property when it was Holy Cross High School.
- The original estate included a triangular elevator, a bowling alley, and a sunken garden.
- After selling the estate in 1944, Perry moved into the Driskill Hotel, which he co-owned.
- Condé Nast Traveler included the estate on its 2023 Gold List; Forbes awarded Four Stars in 2026.
- Entry-level rooms start at 400 sq ft (37 m²).
History
The estate at 4100 Red River Street in what is now Austin's Hyde Park neighborhood was built in 1928 by Edgar Howard Perry, the son of a Texas oil family, as a country retreat at what was then the northern edge of a city that had not yet grown fully into its ambitions. Perry commissioned a 10,800-square-foot Italian Renaissance Revival mansion set on ten acres of grounds, a building that represented, in the Austin of 1928, a statement of extraordinary wealth and aspiration. The mansion's architecture — arcaded loggias, terracotta tile roofing, stucco walls, formal gardens — translated a European estate idiom into the Texas limestone country with the confident excess that oil money permits. Perry named the property after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the naval hero of the War of 1812, and the grounds included formal gardens, a working orchard, and the kind of sustained landholding that was already becoming rare in a fast-growing American city.
The estate passed through various uses over the following decades as Austin grew around it, Hyde Park evolving from a pastoral suburb into an urban neighborhood. By the time Auberge Resorts began considering the site, the mansion had survived its century and retained its bones, though its grandeur had dimmed. The restoration undertaken by Auberge, with designer Ken Fulk leading the interiors, was a genuine act of architectural archaeology: Fulk stripped back layers of institutional use, restored the original plasterwork, refreshed the grounds, and created a new three-story hotel building adjacent to the mansion that defers to the 1928 structure rather than competing with it. The result was 54 rooms distributed between the original mansion and the new addition, with the estate's gardens, pool, and public spaces serving both.
Lutie's Garden Restaurant, the hotel's all-day dining destination, is named for Lutie Perry, Edgar's wife, a gesture that returns the human history of the family to the foreground. Commodore Perry Estate opened in 2020 and received two Michelin Keys in 2025 — the highest hotel recognition in the Michelin system for a Texas address outside Houston. For travelers coming to Austin for its technology-and-creative-industry scene, the property offers something the city's newer glass towers cannot: the physical weight of a century-old estate that existed long before Austin became a destination.
The setting
The Commodore Perry Estate sits on a sweeping 10-acre National Register property at 4100 Red River Street in Austin's Hancock neighborhood, a residential enclave just north of the University of Texas campus. The Italian Renaissance Revival mansion was built in 1928 for cotton and development entrepreneur E. H. Perry — the man credited with shaping much of downtown and suburban Austin — and Waller Creek threads through the rear of the grounds. After serving as a Catholic girls' school and later a series of independent academies, the estate reopened in 2020 as an Auberge Resorts property, earning two Michelin Keys in 2024. The LBJ Presidential Library is 12 minutes by transit, and the Texas Capitol 20 minutes. 5-minute walk to Hancock Golf Course. 2 miles from Blanton Museum of Art.
Restaurants and bars
- Lutie's Garden Restaurant — Restaurant
Experiences
- Experiences Gallery / Revel in Relaxation & Adventure — Gardening and a Sunday Southern-style supper, presented as the Estate's signature experiences.
- Sunday chef-prepared picnic — Chef-prepared picnic on Sundays on the sprawling lawn with gingham blanket and Champagne on ice.
- Stargazing party on the lawn — Stargazing party on the lawn attended by astronomers and eclipse-chasers, part of a Black Tomato eclipse itinerary.
- Glamping brunch Sundays — Glamping brunch on Sundays on the manicured lawn.
- Wine tastings and live local performances — The hotel regularly offers wine tastings and live performances by local artists.
- Wellness, Pilates, yoga and meditation — On-site instructors teach wellness, Pilates, yoga and meditation; monthly palm readings in the library.
Amenities
- Pool
- Gardens
- Members club
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2026)
- Condé Nast Traveler Gold List (2023)
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