Historic Hyde Park Homes Tour

Thanks for joining the 45th Annual Hyde Park Historic Homes Tour

Bridging Eras: Past and Present in Hyde Park

The 2024 Homes Tour took place November 10, 2024 at a curated selection of notable homes across Hyde Park. This year’s Tour was our best attended ever. Thanks to all who attended, our tour’s many volunteers, and our local sponsors for supporting this event, benefitting the all-volunteer Hyde Park Neighborhood Association.

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White-Kieschnick House

This colorful Hyde Park bungalow is filled with Texotica, including Texan antiques, quilts, cowboy boots, folk art, cowhide rugs, and bluebonnet paintings. The grounds feature bottle trees, sculptural mosaics, and water elements. Add to those visual attractions a history that includes several distinguished owners: Benjamin White, President of the Austin Pharmaceutical Association, among other achievements; and Sam Kieschnick, a celebrated UT employee and, with his wife, church activist.

Manlove House

This 1930s bungalow has a unique credential: it was used as a set in the CW television series “Walker,” a reboot of the 1990s western drama television series “Walker, Texas Ranger.” The well in the back yard – uncommon to Hyde Park homes – is another noteworthy feature. The current owner has made a series of improvements, including the restoration of the original porch (formerly closed in, which destroyed the house’s status as contributing to the Hyde Park historic district) and the addition of a fence built on UT traffic bollards.

Sanders-Durr House

A product of the revival of Hyde Park – and inner-city neighborhoods in general – during the 1960s and ‘70s, the Sanders-Durr House, with its neo-Victorian exterior, was designed to blend seamlessly into the fabric of a historic neighborhood. Blessed with several owners experienced in interior design and historic preservation, the house has undergone changes during its almost half century of existence but it has retained its character and stands today as an example of a newer house with old-style charm.

Covert House


This remarkable house, arguably the neighborhood’s grande dame, is a classic example of Queen Anne architecture: asymmetrical appearance, strong horizontal emphasis, diversity of textures and materials, complex roof system, and decorative detailing. Its many occupants included the founder of Covert Automobile Company, the first car dealership in Austin; a ranching family who rented the home so their many children could be formally educated away from the ranch; and a Catholic orphanage and home for single mothers.

Hildreth-Flanagan-Heierman House

An outstanding example of the transition from the late 19th to the early 20th century, this house blends Colonial Revival detailing with Queen Anne design elements. This was the first of several houses built by master builder William Voss Sr. in Hyde Park. The loving hands of several different owners ensured the necessary preservation, restoration, and renovation of the house; and today, its original windows and doors coexist with its converted sleeping porch, built-in pantry, and modified floor plan.

Homes Tour History
Learn more about the history of the event, and download guides from past events dating back to 1979, chock full of Hyde Park history.