Chester and Lorine Nagel House
Nagel House, 1940-1941, Austin.
Austin (1940-1941): Chester Nagel, a student of Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius at Harvard, built his own family home along Shoal Creek. It’s believed to be the first International Style house in Austin and marries the revolutionary notions of Bauhaus Modernism with the vernacular architecture of Nagel’s hometown, Fredericksburg.Significant features include a flat roof, continuous bands of windows, and a nod to the Hill Country with its street-facing wall of rough limestone block. The Nagel House appears in the 2024 book Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture.
