The family of the late N.F.L. coach Tom Landry is selling the Texas lake house he built, putting it on the market for $1,249,500.
"Coach," as the family called him, and his wife Alicia used the Austin-area home overlooking Lake Travis as a getaway from their primary home in Dallas, according to Gary Childress, Mr. Landry’s son-in-law. Known for his trademark fedora, the Texas native was head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for 29 seasons, until the late 1980s.
The Landrys built the five-bedroom house at the nine-unit Peninsula Villas condominium development around 1997. Mr. Childress, who owned the house next door, was a developer of the Peninsula Villas and Mr. Landry was an investor, he said. The home is located in Spicewood, about 35 miles from Austin.
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Floor-to-ceiling glass offers lake views throughout the open-plan home, which measures about 4,000 square feet, according to listing agent Kat Brooks of Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty. A multilevel patio overlooking the lake has an outdoor swimming pool and hot tub. Another deck opens off an upstairs family room, and a dumbwaiter transports food and drink from the kitchen below. The property also has its own boat slip—Mr. Landry loved boating, Mr. Childress said, and the family would often take the boat out with food and wine at sunset.
Located at the Peninsula Villas condominium development, the home is about 4,000 square feet and has an outdoor swimming pool.
PHOTO: SHUTTERBUG STUDIOSThe Landrys, who had met as students at the University of Texas at Austin, had been vacationing in the area for decades before building this house, Mr. Childress said. "They loved the hill country and Lake Travis," he said. "It was a place for the two of them to really get away and escape the spotlight."
After Mr. Landry’s death in 2000, Ms. Landry still spent a good deal of time with family at the Spicewood house. Now that her grandchildren are older, she doesn’t make the trip from Dallas as often, Mr. Childress said, prompting the family to put the home on the market. "She’s not using it as much," he said.
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