Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
A 1920s Italian Renaissance Revival estate returned to glory as a destination resort, restaurant and private club.
About this project
Built for Edgar and Lutie Perry between 1917 and 1928 to designs by Henry Bowers Thompson, this ten-acre compound was a transportive oasis in the middle of Austin — formal gardens, an Italianate mansion and a carriage house along Waller Creek, enclosed by a stone wall.
The 10,800-square-foot mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. Working with Moule & Polyzoides, interior designer Ken Fulk and Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, the team returned the historic fabric to its former glory and reimagined the property through a modern reading of its residential past.
Our contribution included the mansion and carriage house and a new destination restaurant, Lutie's, set within the garden. "Designed not to call attention to itself and eventually to be cloaked entirely in ivy, the restaurant is meant to be a backdrop to the garden and the events held within," notes Paul Clayton. Inside the mansion, five original bedrooms became distinctive suites, and the ground-floor rooms function much as they historically would have.
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