The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria

About this audio guide

This guide to Laguna Gloria in Austin follows Clara Driscoll, famous for saving the Alamo, who turned her lakeside villa into Austin's social hub in the nineteen-tens and twenties. You will hear about the dinner parties, political receptions, and salons in her Mediterranean-style house, and the guests who arrived by boat off Lake Austin. It traces how a preservationist spent her fortune on something else entirely. Stand near the water where her guests once came ashore for the best sense of the scene.