When Mr. Perry learned the fire was arson, he said, his emotions "went from heartache to pretty damn mad." This was his family's home, he said, and a place where children have "slid down banisters and chased pets in the yard" for more than a century.
Mr. Perry didn't say whether he was disappointed with the Department of Public Safety, whose troopers are responsible for safeguarding the mansion.

The mansion wasn't just home to Perry, or W before him.