The Oge House
209 Washington St, San Antonio, TX 78204, USA
(210) 223-2353
Rating: 4 – Based on 25 Visitor Ratings
Opening Times.
Monday: Open 24 hours
Tuesday: Open 24 hours
Wednesday: Open 24 hours
Thursday: Open 24 hours
Friday: Open 24 hours
Saturday: Open 24 hours
Sunday: Open 24 hours
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5 responses to “The Oge House”
There are so many beautiful, historic homes in the King William neighborhood of Southtown, San Antonio. The Oge House is no exception to this – the house is so lovely to view when you’re walking the neighborhood. The home has been admitted to the Texas Historical Commission + is 100% worth the visit!
Per the home’s historical marker inscription: “One of early stone residences of San Antonio. First floor and basement were built as early as 1857 when place was owned by Attorney Newton A. Mitchell and wife Catherine (Elder).
Louis Oge (1832-1915) bought house in 1881, after migrating (1845) to Texas with the Castro Colony, serving in Texas Rangers under W.A.A. (“Bigfoot”) Wallace, and making a fortune as a rancher. He was a San Antonio business leader and served as alderman and school board president. He had leading architect Alfred Giles enlarge and remodel the house in Neo-Classical style.”
Both properties are beautiful. We stayed at the property next to the owners home and it was so cute. Very clean. Comfortable beds. Gas Fireplaces which we needed and within walking distance from a lot of great bars and restaurants. My kids had their own room. Great sitting area for more space. Full kitchen and fridge so we were able to make our own breakfast and easily store snacks. Each dish and cup was spotless from dirt or dust. Bathrooms squeaky clean. This property is very well taken care of. We will be back!
Quaint & quiet location. We liked how it was walking distance from the Riverwalk. We stayed in the Carriage House. When we first opened the door we saw a Pepsi can on the kitchen island. We wondered how clean the room really was. We saw a few cobwebs & dust on the lights & furniture. The website stated that each room is provided bath robes & ours did not have any. The area where the carpet meets the marble tile from the bedroom to the bathroom was uneven & we kept tripping over the tiling. We called the manager Don & told him about the trip hazard & he did not seem too concerned. The stay was fine, but wish we set the bar a bit lower when we arrived before getting disappointed. Definitely won’t be booking another stay with Noble Inns in the future.
This was one of the worst hotel / B&B experiences I have ever had. I rarely leave reviews but I felt an obligation to anybody considering a stay here.
I’ll start with the positives: the house was very nice, with a beautiful location right on the riverwalk.
Unfortunately, every interaction we had with the owner was unpleasant and unprofessional. He talked over me, interrupting me numerous times, and when my son stood up for me he said “you are being very rude.” He reprimanded us and treated us like children instead of guests when we made reasonable requests, threatening to keep property we left in the room after we raised these concerns with him.
I can not in good conscience recommend staying here or at any other property owned by Noble Inns.
Stayed 2/16-19/24. Number of things were just odd. From the decor to how it was ‘renovated’.
1. Did not like the location of the CHINOISERIE room: Front left, where everyone enters the inn and walks right past your room. The room is right off the front porch and the outside seating area so you can clearly hear people talking outside, 2-3 feet from your bed, through single pane windows. Additionally, the room windows have shear see-through curtains (under drapes) that must be closed if you want privacy or you can see in the room, especially at night!!! Second issue is the drapes naturally have gapes so we had to move chairs and use pillows to keep the curtain gapes closed.
2. This was super odd: our breakfast was brought to us the PRIOR afternoon for the next morning. DON’T waste your $9/pp/day for breakfast: store bought or box made(?) muffin, Yoplait yogurt, juice and sorry looking fruit. You get your own Keurig coffee yourself in the main area. Super underwhelming!
3. The electric fire place advertised was (no kidding) a light bulb behind a plastic cutout colored flame template. VERY misleading on their part.
4. Safety issue: the wood bedroom floor is TWO INCHES lower than the tile floor in the bathroom. THIS IS A TOE BREAKER or fall if you miss it. We ended up rolling up a towel and putting it on the floor to cover the threshold. This is a safety issue (from other reviews) that they are already aware of.
Hot water is scalding hot, less than a 1 second burn time that made me yell out in the shower.
We were irked that they charged for parking in an ample lot they own; just another way to ‘gig’ you.
Over all it was generally clean. The decor is older and mismatched, neither really antique or period pieces. Kinda like your great grams house back in the day.
Other than at our arrival and the afternoon breakfast delivery. We saw no staff ever during our three days there and we were in and out during the day.
We did like the close proximity to the river walk. PLEASE NOTE: the first 10 mins of this walk does not have businesses so it’s kinda eerie coming back at night with no one else around.
We thought the bed was comfortable.
Would we return or recommend it? NO. Even with the above mentioned, we enjoyed our time in SA very much.