The Story of Our Bed & Breakfast

Alexandra's House Bed and Breakfast was custom built in 2008 and is the final result of five years of planning.

We wanted to build a home on some acreage in the Texas Hill Country that we could share with family, friends and guests. Having a bed and breakfast has always been part of our goal.

As an artist (great granddaughter of American painter Abbott H. Thayer) and a fomer restaurant owner in Houston, Rosemary has always enjoyed cooking, meeting new people and making them feel welcome.

The Land & Our Home
We purchased our 5+acres in 2003 and sought advice from land preservation companies about how to manage it without destroying it's natural habitats and wildlife.

We researched green building and energy efficiency in an attempt to make as small an impact on the environment as possible.

The result is a magnificent Craftsman house with charm from earlier times and all the modern amenities of today.

We are pleased with the results.

Alexandra's House, built in 2008

Our inn is filled with family antiques, personal art work, photography, books, and quilts made by our ancestors.

We continue to work on the land and have added a fountain, garden planters for herbs and will soon put in a vegetable garden.

We have cleared many of the cedars to showcase the live oak trees and cedar elms that are abundant, and we have a wide variety of wild flowers that bloom almost every season, attracting birds and butterflies.

If you sit quietly on the wrap-around porch, you may see our grey fox, deer, wild turkey and small critters that roam our land.