The Peter and Clotilde Shipe Mansbendel House is an historic home in the Hyde Park Historic District in

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, United States. It is also a part of the Shadow Lawn Historic District, a subdivision within the Hyde Park neighborhood established by Hyde Park founder

Monroe M. Shipe Colonel Monroe Martin Shipe (March 12, 1847–April 27, 1924), also called M. M. Shipe, was an American real estate developer who developed Hyde Park, an early streetcar suburb in Austin, Texas. He also founded the Austin Electric Railway Comp ...

. The house was built in 1925 by Peter Mansbendel, a master carpenter who personally added carved-wood decorations to the home. Mansbendel also carved wooden doors for the mid-century restoration of the Governor's Palace in

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, and provided work for Austin's first permanent public library in 1933. The house is located at 3824 Avenue F. It was added to the

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in 1990.

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