Father: J. W. Perry
Mother: Lucinda Valentine
Occupation: Industrialist
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.
Commodore Perry and his wife, Lutie, built the Perry Mansion and Estate (4100 Red River St, Austin, TX) 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". 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.
Mother: Lucinda Valentine
Occupation: Industrialist
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.
Commodore Perry and his wife, Lutie, built the Perry Mansion and Estate (4100 Red River St, Austin, TX) 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". 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.
Father: J. W. Perry
Mother: Lucinda Valentine
Occupation: Industrialist
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.
Commodore Perry and his wife, Lutie, built the Perry Mansion and Estate (4100 Red River St, Austin, TX) 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". 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.
Mother: Lucinda Valentine
Occupation: Industrialist
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.
Commodore Perry and his wife, Lutie, built the Perry Mansion and Estate (4100 Red River St, Austin, TX) 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". 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.
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