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Mayfield Park and Nature Preserve
Wooded garden estate with a hand-built stone wall, lily ponds, and free-roaming peacocks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mayfield Park and Nature Preserve in Austin follows Milton Gutsch, a University of Texas history professor with no mason's training, who spent the nineteen thirties hand-building the garden's undulating stone wall with gardener Esteban Arredondo. It reaches back to the family who built this hillside retreat, Allison Mayfield and his daughter Mary, and forward to the Christmas gift that gave the park its peacocks. Run a hand along the stones as you listen.
This audio guide was created using AI.