A sprawling Terrell Hills-area mansion nicknamed “The Versailles” has hit the San Antonio market for the first time, carrying an asking price of $4.7 million. The 8,535-square-foot home comes stacked with French-inspired flourishes, from reproduction gates to a staircase modeled after one in France, and includes a separate live-in suite along with five bedrooms, seven full baths and two half baths.
The listing, first reported by San Antonio Current, places the property in the Terrell Hills area of San Antonio and notes this is the first time it has entered the market. The primary suite alone includes separate his-and-her dressing rooms and baths, while four additional bedrooms round out the sleeping quarters, one of them topped with a crown canopy bed. Listing information and photos are credited to Realtor.com.
French Flourishes Throughout
The home's exterior sets the tone before anyone even steps inside, with two private 18th-century-reproduction gated entrances and a French-pattern cobblestone driveway winding through manicured shrubbery. Once inside, a winding staircase reproduces one found at Château d'Abondant in France, according to the same report. Hardwood floors replicate 18th-century Versailles patterns, tying the home's nickname directly to its design choices.
Formal living spaces carry the theme further. The property includes a stately library, a formal dining room, two expansive living areas and a breakfast room, the outlet's report indicates. Three gas fireplaces finished with 18th-century French limestone mantels anchor the main gathering spaces, and gilded furnishings appear throughout, rounding out a home built for entertaining on a grand scale.
Who's Selling It, and What's Still Unknown
Kristi Dunlap Smith of Fathom Realty is handling the sale, per the listing details relayed in the same report. Notably, the online listing does not include the home's construction year, leaving that detail unresolved for prospective buyers browsing the property's history.
The Versailles isn't the only eye-catching Terrell Hills property to generate headlines in recent years. A gated mansion at 701 Grandview Place sold in 2022 after listing for around $3 million, a transaction KSAT described at the time as the area's top public sale ever recorded. That five-bedroom home, designed by architect Atlee B. Ayres in the early 1900s, sat on roughly 1.4 acres and measured about 8,369 square feet — a footprint strikingly close to The Versailles' own.
Texas does not generally require home-sale prices to be publicly disclosed, which means a direct comparison between the two properties' eventual sale figures may never be possible. Whatever The Versailles ultimately fetches, its debut adds another eight-figure-adjacent listing to a stretch of Terrell Hills that has quietly built a reputation for grand, history-inflected estates hitting the market after years, or even decades, out of public view.
