Built in 1938 by architect Roy L. Thomas for Herbert and Alice Bohn, and now recognized as one of the most iconic and architecturally striking homes in all of Austin, The Bohn House was originally designed as a modernist escape, evoking the mythical Shangri-La in Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon. Herbert, fresh from a voyage on the Queen Mary, wanted a home that captured the Streamline Moderne style of the era, complete with aluminum railings, porthole windows, and a prow-like rotunda that gives the exterior a ship-like silhouette.
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