Historic Hyde Park Homes Tour

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO:
Attending the 2025 Homes Tour

Thanks for attending the 2025 Hyde Park Homes Tour, a benefit for the all-volunteer Hyde Park Neighborhood Association

Your ticket price goes directly and entirely to produce this event and others like it throughout the year; part of our ongoing commitment to building community across Hyde Park.

DETAILS FOR THOSE ATTENDING:

A mostly annual event since 1975, residents of Hyde Park have opened up their historic homes to visitors. Organized by volunteers as a ticketed event, it’s the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association’s largest annual fundraiser.

Each year’s Homes Tour features a list of selected homes with historic significance to Austin and Hyde Park. Guests can tour the homes on their schedule over a Sunday afternoon in the fall.

The 2025 event is Sunday, November 9th from 11am - 5pm. 

You MUST first check in anytime beginning at 11am at Trinity Church, 4001 Speedway. Please do not arrive at other homes to start; you will be redirected to the check in. 

There, you'll receive a self-guided tour booket with home locations and extensive background information about each home edited by HPNA volunteers with assistance from the homeowners and other local historians. Each person touring must have a wristband you'll receive at check-in. 

• Expect to spend about two or three hours on the Tour, depending how you navigate between locations. Although there are no resident parking regulations in place, parking can be difficult during the busy tour. We strongly recommend walking between locations for those who are able. Do not park in or block local driveways; please respect our neighbors.

• Please plan to finish your tour before 5pm; the homes will close at that time, without exception. Note that these are all private homes, so please respect the owners' privacy before 11am and after 5pm

• You will be touring private homes, and we ask you to respect the spaces and the rules of each house, as outlined by our volunteer docents. These may include wearing booties (provided) inside, and/or taking your shoes off. Please treat the houses as you would want your own treated.

• Note that bathrooms are not available at the homes. Please make plans, which might include use of public restrooms at Shipe Park.

• To parents, from parents: this is not a great event for kids. Your kid may be the exception, but we speak from experience that they may be a little bored with the slow pace of the tour. Either way, please don’t let kids wander homes unaccompanied.