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Laguna Gloria is a 1916 Italianate-style villa on the shores of Lake Austin in Austin, Texas. The property was purchased in 1914 by Hal Sevier, editor of the Austin American, with his new wife Clara Driscoll. Their villa, completed two years later, was inspired by their honeymoon visit to Lake Como in Italy. Clara, an avid gardener, spent many years planting native and foreign plants around the site and designing the terraced gardens that remain to this day. In 1943 the Driscoll's donated the homesite to be used as a city museum. Today it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.