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Meet the Graduate Austin Hotel, Bringing 200 Feet of Bricks Downtown

Austin’s own location of the Graduate Hotel is not anticipated to be a particularly subtle building. This collegiate-minded boutique lodging brand is set to develop a new outpost only a few blocks removed from the University of Texas campus in the far northwest corner of downtown at 1800 Guadalupe Street — and like many of the other locations designed by the Chicago-based architects Hartshorne Plunkard, the building has a serious predilection for masonry. Like, so much brick it got posted to the incredibly snobby “architectural revival” subreddit earlier this year.

Alongside its 194 hotel rooms, the building will contain a residential component with 228 rental units operated under the developer’s new Memoir Residential platform, which offers both traditional leases and shorter-term rentals of fully-furnished residences. More than 8,000 square feet of retail space will be included in the hotel building, most on the ground floor but with additional use on the rooftop amenity deck at level 19. The entrance to the hotel component of the building will face West 18th Street, with access to the residential lobby and its amenities located at the corner of West 18th and Guadalupe Streets.