Hyde Park Neighborhood Association · 47th Annual · Preservation & Progress
Historic Hyde Park
Homes Tour
$25 on the day at the Ney · under 12 free
Preservation & Progress
This year’s theme highlights Hyde Park’s distinctive character. All seven homes preserve the neighborhood’s unique history while adapting to the needs of a modern family.
One Sunday in November, seven houses on the lettered avenues open their front doors. Walk the block, go inside, ask questions. Neighbors have been doing this since 1975.
This year’s tour
Seven houses on the lettered avenues
Each home preserves the neighborhood’s history while adapting to the needs of a modern family. A bus runs the route from 11 to 5, so the whole day can be walked or ridden.
B · 1930
The Sweet-George House
4314 Avenue G
A classic Hyde Park home with an extraordinary architectural history. Its footprint and exterior envelope remain unchanged except for a fresh coat of paint.
Restored by Gene and Mary Carolyn Hollers George — two of Texas’s leading preservation architects and historians — who reimagined the interior of the 780-square-foot cottage while leaving the outside exactly as it was.
C · 1918
The Stone-Bohls House
4309 Avenue F
A Craftsman bungalow that has lived many lives: family home, duplex for nearly sixty years, and family home again.
Architects Matt and Sarah Luck followed the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards, keeping old and new clearly distinct. A custom wall of white oak cabinetry runs through the centre of the house like a Swiss Army knife.
D · 1923
The Tidwell-Webb House
4208 Avenue F
Built during the first wave of Hyde Park’s bungalow boom, with the modest scale, welcoming porch and low-pitched roofline that came to define the neighborhood.
In 1944 the listing described a five-room home with a bath, sleeping porch, double garage, washroom, fenced backyard and chicken house — all for $5,000.
E · 1927
The Proctor-Carapetyan House
3810 Duval
Designed by Austin architect Roy L. Thomas, combining Craftsman principles with Tudor Revival details, when Duval was little more than a dirt road.
Paul Carapetyan bought it in 1988. An extraordinary amount of original material survives — windows, doors, hardware, the original bathroom mosaic floor, and the original peacock wallpaper.
F · 1926
The Wiley-Lampley House
4607 Red River
A bungalow with the scale and massing of a farmhouse, unlike any other home in Hyde Park, sitting on three adjoining lots.
The Lampleys found shiplap beneath failing wallpaper and chose to leave it exposed. They stabilised the foundation with thirty-nine new piers, and found an antique doll hidden inside one of the walls.
G · 1942
The George-Campbell-Hinman House
601 East 49th Street
Rather than replace the original 850-square-foot structure, architect Andy Hinman and Rebecca Campbell chose to reimagine it.
The original 8-foot 4-inch ceiling height became a design tool, creating a deliberate rhythm of compression and expansion through the house. A detached ADU followed in 2020.
H · 1951
The Morgan-Haring House
508 East 49th Street
An excellent example of the Minimal Traditional style — the “Victory cottages” that met the nation’s urgent postwar need for practical, affordable housing.
Lucy Haring has kept it through a philosophy of gradual preservation, one major improvement nearly every year. The front porch welcomes visitors much as it did in 1951.
Austin’s first suburb
Hyde Park: 135 years
In January 1891 the Hyde Park Addition was filed with Travis County, running from Guadalupe to Duval and from 39th to 45th Streets. Col. Monroe Shipe had bought 206.25 acres of land that, for nine years before him, had held exhibit halls, livestock pens and a 3,500-seat grandstand beside the Capital Jockey Club racetrack.
That same year the Austin Rapid Transit Railway Company ran its first electric trolley from Congress Avenue to Guadalupe, where it turned east into Hyde Park and made a circuit of the neighborhood. The trolleys ran until 1941. In 1894 Austin bought thirty-one moonlight towers; the Hyde Park tower was the first, and Shipe powered it from his own generator because the dam’s generators were not finished.
Shipe sold the corner lots to Austin’s upper crust and the smaller lots along the block to working people. Between 1924 and 1935 a building boom produced most of Hyde Park’s treasured bungalows. The 1950s and 60s nearly undid it — upzoning, absentee landlords, demolition — until a delegation of residents led by Dorothy Richter stopped the closure of Fire Station No. 9 in 1971 and founded the neighborhood association three years later. Preservation efforts culminated in the Hyde Park Local Historic District in 2010.
Seven more, from the window
Along the bus route
The route from Avenue G and 44th Street to Duval and 39th passes six historic landmark homes, and a seventh on the way to Red River. You will see them whether you walk or ride.
Adams House
4300 Avenue G · 1911
Began as a one-story asymmetrical Victorian cottage; remodelled into a square Colonial Revival in the 1930s. Won a Heritage Society award in 1997.
Philquist-Wood House
4007 Avenue G · 1912
Queen Anne, built by Oscar Blomquist for $2,600. An asymmetrical classical box with gable shingling and diamond-lite cottage windows.
Clarkson-Crutchfield House
4001 Avenue G · 1905
The Crutchfields kept a parakeet aviary and dug a fish pond out back. The grounds, once a wartime Victory Garden, were re-landscaped by Jill Nokes.
Covert House
3912 Avenue G · 1898
Frank Covert opened one of Austin’s first automobile dealerships and gave the Mt. Bonnell lookout to Travis County. Queen Anne, with a two-story wraparound porch.
Page-Gilbert House
3913 Avenue G · 1893
Designed and built by Christopher H. Page, an English immigrant who came to Austin as chief stonemason on the new state capitol.
Shipe House
3816 Avenue G · 1892
Hyde Park’s first residence, built by its founder from timbers salvaged from the old state fair grandstand. Stick style, Swiss chalet and Eastlake at once.
Proctor-Evans-Otting House
4200 Duval · 1915
A Craftsman bungalow built for Jennie E. Proctor, then a 43-year-old widow and the mother of nine children.
Before you come
Plan your day
- Start here
- Tour headquarters is the grounds of the Elisabet Ney Museum, 304 East 44th Street. The museum building itself is closed while it undergoes its Re-Imagining the Ney restoration.
- Hours
- Sunday, November 8, 2026, 11am to 5pm. Last entry to the houses is 5pm sharp.
- Walk it or ride it
- A bus runs the route from 11 to 5, with stops at Avenue G & 44th Street, 39th & Duval, the 4600 block of Red River, and the 600 block of 49th Street.
- What a ticket covers
- All seven houses, the printed Tour Guide, and the bus. Under 12 free.
- A note on the houses
- These are people’s homes, opened for one day. Please follow the house captains’ directions on shoes, bags and photography inside.
- Where the money goes
- Every dollar stays in the neighborhood — the Holiday and Bunny parades, Shipe Park, and the work of the all-volunteer Hyde Park Neighborhood Association the rest of the year.
Tickets are on sale now
Twenty dollars, and the whole day is yours
The tour is put on by volunteers and paid for by them
Our 2026 sponsors
Suzanne Pringle · Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty
Hyde Park Marketplace
Seed Property Group
Berbas Group
Tim & Karrie League and The Baker School
The Austin Chronicle
Barron Restorations · First Light Cafe and Book Shop · Karen McGraw Architect PLLC · Moogie Pilates · New World Deli
O’Connell Architecture · Heather Powell Residential Group · Save the Good Stuff · Stepping Stone School · Texas Health Credit Union
Friends of the Tour