- The Rosette -
A totally distinctive new venue and event space in the historic Hyde Park neighborhood.
Welcome to The Rosette
Named for the decorative mosaic design that encircles the sound hole of a guitar, The Rosette is home to Austin Classical Guitar, an arts nonprofit with over 30 years of service in the community. Along with the organization’s concerts and programming, ACG welcomes inquiries from other groups seeking a truly unique space for their own events.
The Rosette features an intimate performance and production space that can accommodate up to 85 seated guests in the main level and balcony. Outfitted with advanced lighting and audio systems, livestream production and recording capabilities, and a cinema-quality projection screen, The Rosette can accommodate a wide range of activities. Live music, theater, comedy, lectures, receptions, experimental art - they all shine at The Rosette!
Read Austin American Statesman columnist Michael Barnes’s first impressions of “a jewel box called The Rosette.”
The Historic Baker School
Baker School is one of the oldest school buildings in the city and exemplifies the important role that public schools played in Austin’s history. The Hyde Park neighborhood was developed in 1891 by Monroe Shipe as the city’s first streetcar suburb and designed to appeal to the upper middle class. Baker School was an essential feature in the new residential district.
Baker School replaced the older Hyde Park School established by Monroe Shipe, which was located on Speedway, when the older school proved inadequate for the neighborhood’s growing population. The school was named for DeWitt Clinton Baker (1832-1881), who helped establish Austin’s public school system, serving as the inspector of schools from 1872 to 1877, and as treasurer of the Austin Library Association, organized Austin’s first public library. A businessman and a native of Portland, Maine, Baker also wrote several books on Texas history.
Baker School began as an elementary school for the children of Hyde Park, then became a middle school in 1973, and finally a high school (W.R. Robbins) in 1980. Baker was a neighborhood school for students in Hyde Park and was renowned for quality education and an outstanding music program. The Austin Independent School District used the building for administrative offices before selling the property in 2019 to the owners of the Alamo Drafthouse, a national chain of movie theaters, which uses the building as their corporate offices. The school is also home to creative and design firms as well a nonprofit organizations dedicated to arts and culture.