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Historic Hyde Park
Homes Tour 2024

2024 Homes Tour

November 10, 2024 • 11am - 5pm

Bridging Eras: Past and Present in Hyde Park
The 2024 Homes Tour will take place November 10, 2024 at a curated selection of notable homes across Hyde Park — Homes will be announced in coming weeks before the event and posted here.

Purchase $20 “early bird” tickets here today. 

Save $5 per ticket; tickets will be $25 on the day of the event.

Know Before You Go

Attending the 2024 Homes Tour

Thanks for your interest in the 2024 Hyde Park Homes Tour, benefiting 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:

Since sometime between 1975 and 1977, residents of Hyde Park have opened up their historic homes to visitors on an annual basis. Organized by volunteers as a ticketed event for over 50 years, 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 2024 event is Sunday, November 10th from 11am - 5pm. 

You MUST first check in at the Elisabet Ney Museum at 304 E. 44th Street, anytime during the event. Please do not arrive at other homes to start; you will be redirected to the Ney. 

There, you'll receive a self-guided tour booklet with home locations and extensive background information about each home provided 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. 

  • You do NOT need to print your ticket or download the app. However, it can accelerate check-in to have your confirmation email open.

  • You can ignore the "Access Pass" app info at the bottom of your tickets/email. Our system automatically updates the information — you don't need the app.

  • Expect to spend about two or three hours on the Tour, depending on 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; 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.

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.

The Historic Hyde Park Homes Tour, a long and esteemed tradition that showcases the beautiful homes that characterize Austin’s first streetcar subdivision, dates from the same period as the founding of the neighborhood association and the beginning of efforts to restore Hyde Park to its original glory.

The first tour, on a hot summer day sometime between 1975 and 1977, led tourists past but not into a number of Hyde Park’s classic homes, while Dorothy Richter provided a jug of ice water to cool the crowd. Janice Linder, a graduate student who rented an apartment on Speedway, and Fran Norman, a boarder at Rutledge House on Guadalupe, organized the first tour. Janice had already shown her commitment to Hyde Park by organizing efforts to save the Oliphant House at Avenue C and 39th Street from demolition, an effort that led to the founding of the neighborhood association.

From that seed grew a tradition that has lasted over 50 years. On the third tour, in 1979, visitors viewed the insides as well as the outsides of the houses. With the exception of 2008 and 2016, each year Hyde Park has presented six or more houses for the public to view. Most have been restored and renovated older homes, but a few have been recent additions to the neighborhood. Likewise, most have been within the boundaries of Hyde Park, but a few – for example, Inshallah and the Perry Mansion – have been in adjoining neighborhoods. All but four of Hyde Park’s historic landmark homes have been on the tour, and some of them have opened their doors to the public on multiple occasions, notably, the Kopperl House, the Page-Gilbert House, the Covert House, the Bell-Smith House, the Woodburn House, the Shipe House, and the Oliphant House. You can see some of these homes on this site’s Historic Landmarks page.

In 1986, the tour celebrated its tenth anniversary, and in 2001, its twenty-fifth. The 2017 tour was celebrated as its fortieth anniversary tour. Those of you with mathematical turns of mind will notice that the numbers don’t add up. The tour began in 1977 and missed two years along the way; that would make the 2018 tour the fortieth anniversary, not the 2017 tour! Apparently, numbering went astray in 2006, when the thirtieth annual tour was mistakenly labeled the thirty-first. Ah, well, organizational memory is as subject to error as human memory!

Enjoy your tour through these booklets. They present the best side of Hyde Park – its history, its architecture, and its dedicated corps of preservation-minded neighbors.

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