A four-story limestone castle built in 1894 for a U.S. diplomat is back on the San Antonio real estate market, and this time the asking price runs into the millions. Lambermont, the nine-bedroom estate at 950 E. Grayson St. in the Government Hill neighborhood, has spent more than a decade as one of the city’s best-known wedding venues, and its longtime owners are now looking to hand it off to a new steward.
The castle was commissioned by Edwin Holland Terrell, who served as U.S. Minister and later Ambassador to Belgium in the early 1890s under President Benjamin Harrison. According to Lambermont Events, Terrell drew architectural inspiration from European castles during his diplomatic posting and commissioned architect Alfred Giles in 1894 to build the estate for his family. Terrell named the property Lambermont in honor of Belgian diplomat and statesman Baron Auguste Lambermont, with whom he had worked overseas, the venue’s own history page notes.
Even the stone has a local backstory. As reported by Texas Public Radio, the native limestone blocks used to build the castle came from a quarry roughly a mile away that was later redeveloped into the San Antonio Zoo.
Nine Bedrooms, Nine Fireplaces, and a Century of History
Per mySA, the 1894 main residence spans 11,488 square feet and contains nine bedrooms, nine bathrooms and nine original fireplaces, along with a library, music room and parlor. The primary suite includes its own balcony and living room. A separate guest house adds another 2,464 square feet, and the whole estate sits on just over an acre of gated grounds with parking for 15 cars, according to commercial listing specifications reviewed by Movoto.$$0The property’s most recent renovation was completed in 2012, mySA reports, and the outlet notes Lambermont has a history of hosting presidents, dignitaries and prominent guests over the decades…