Hotel
The Driskill - The Unbound Collection by Hyatt
Romanesque Revival hotel of pressed brick and limestone, built by a cattle baron who soon lost it.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Driskill in Austin follows Jesse Driskill, the Tennessee-born cattleman who spent a fortune from Chisholm Trail cattle drives to raise a Romanesque Revival hotel at Sixth and Brazos in eighteen eighty-six. It traces the freeze and drought that hit his herds on the northern plains, and the chain of owners who took the hotel off his hands in the years after. Look up at the brick and limestone towers from the Sixth Street entrance to see what all that cattle money bought.
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