Three Historic Austin Houses Are for Sale in $20 Million Package Deal
The contiguous properties on the famed Bremond block come as a group.
The first historic house that Mueller bought, which comes with a large oak tree.
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Even before the lawyer Mark Mueller bought his first historic home in Austin, Texas, he “always tried to live in one, or rent one,” he says. He recalls that in the mid-1990s, as he wandered around downtown one day, he passed a white Victorian with an elegant veranda and a massive oak tree out front. Fortuitously, the house sported a “for sale” sign. “I just went, ‘Damn, I want that,’” Mueller says, and shortly thereafter closed on it and turned it into an office for his law practice.
Over the next few years, Mueller acquired the two adjacent houses (three, if you count the carriage house on one of the properties) in an area known as the Bremond Block Historic District, a group of eleven homes which is on the National Register of Historic Places and less than a five minute walk from Republic Square. It consists almost entirely of houses built by or expanded for the families of banker/merchant brothers Eugene and John Bremond, according to the Texas State Historical Association. And it is now largely surrounded by modern high rises.