1704 Travis Heights Blvd — Austin, Texas
817-881-8175 homeat1704@gmail.com
1704 Travis Heights Austin, Texas
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For Sale — Travis Heights

1704 Travis Heights Blvd

$1,999,000 · 3 Bed · 2 Bath · Built 1937

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The House

A 1937 cottage, grown into a family home

Built in 1937, the original cottage still sets the tone — shiplap walls, a charming fireplace, deep window sills with casement windows, and natural light that moves through the house all day. Two carefully conceived expansions added the space a modern family actually lives in: a family room, an expanded kitchen that opens to the family room, a private primary suite, a garage facing the alleyway, and covered patios on both levels.

Three bedrooms, two baths, and a 6,969 square-foot lot shaded by mature heritage pecan trees and ancient crepe myrtles — on one of the most walkable blocks in Travis Heights.

Front elevation Kitchen toward the family room Family room

Inside the house

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The Location

Ten minutes from everything, a world away from all of it

Travis Heights sits just across Lady Bird Lake from downtown Austin — close enough to walk to South Congress for dinner, far enough that the street stays quiet.

Aerial view of 1704 Travis Heights Blvd with the downtown Austin skyline behind
The property outlined, with downtown Austin just beyond Lady Bird Lake.
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The Layout

Floor plan

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Floor plan of 1704 Travis Heights Blvd — first and second floor

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Gallery

Every room, unfurnished

Photographed empty so you can see the raw beauty of the historical house and the modern renovations that artfully and intentionally coordinate with it. Click any photo to open it full screen and browse with the arrows.

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Aerial view toward downtown Austin

The Neighborhood

Travis Heights, 78704

1704 Travis Heights Blvd
Austin, Texas 78704

The house sits on the tree-lined boulevard that gives the neighborhood its name — a wide, shaded street that curves down the hill toward Blunn Creek and Lady Bird Lake.

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Map of Travis Heights showing 1704 Travis Heights Blvd
1704 Travis Heights Blvd
Walking distance to South Congress, Lady Bird Lake and Stacy Park.

A Twelve-Minute Walk

South Congress, on foot

Coffee, dinner, a hotel courtyard for out-of-town guests, and a mile of shopfronts — all reachable without moving the car.

June's All Day on South Congress
June's All Day
Two Hands cafe
Two Hands
Hotel Saint Cecilia
Hotel Saint Cecilia
Shopfronts on South Congress
SoCo shopfronts
Original hand-drawn plat map of Travis Heights with handwritten deed restrictions
The original hand-drawn plat of Travis Heights, with the deed restrictions written out by hand alongside it. Tap to enlarge.

A Short History

Austin's first garden suburb

Travis Heights was platted in the 1910s on land that had been the Swisher family farm, laid out by developer General William Stacy with an idea borrowed from the garden-city movement: let the streets follow the hills instead of flattening them. That decision is why the neighborhood still feels the way it does — curving lanes, stone retaining walls, creek beds left alone, and oaks old enough to have been mature when the first houses went up.

Building continued through the 1920s and 30s, which is where this house comes in — a 1937 cottage on the boulevard, one of the last of the pre-war wave. Stacy Park and Big Stacy Pool, fed by a natural spring and open year-round, were built as the neighborhood's shared backyard and still are.

A century later, South Congress grew up at the top of the hill and downtown filled in across the water, but the interior streets never changed much. It remains one of the very few Austin neighborhoods where you can walk to dinner, a swim, a trailhead, and the Capitol from the same front door.

1934 — 1939

No two of them are alike

When the house was constructed in 1937, Travis Heights still lay at the very southwest corner of the city limits of Austin, surrounded by agricultural land. After the 1929 stock market crash, U.S. homebuilding had virtually shut down, revived only by creation of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934. FHA-financed houses sprang up around the country between 1934 and 1939.

By 1940, building materials were diverted to putting the country on a war footing. Homebuilding in the U.S. would not begin again in earnest until 1946, after World War II was over.

As such, the house at 1704 Travis Heights Blvd. is representative of the relatively brief period between 1930 and 1946 when a meaningful number of houses were constructed in Travis Heights. No two of them are alike.

1939 map of Austin showing Travis Heights at the southern city limits
Austin in 1939 — Travis Heights at the southern edge of the city, farmland beyond.
Stevie Ray Vaughan statue on Lady Bird Lake
The Stevie Ray Vaughan statue on Lady Bird Lake, with the Frost Tower behind it — a twelve-minute walk from the house.

Vibe

Travis Heights has been home to well-known musicians, including former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and his girlfriend, folk musician Patty Griffin, who shared a house around the corner on Newning Avenue.

In the 1970s, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan lived in the house that still stands across the street at 1711 Travis Heights Blvd.

Today musicians and tourists pilgrimage to Stevie Ray's iconic statue on Lady Bird Lake.
Rear of the house and terrace

Bones and Envelope

Structure & exterior

The parts of a house you can't see are the parts that matter most in a 1937 build. Here is exactly what was done to the roof, the foundation and the grounds — and when.

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The structural engineer's report and roofing invoices are available on request.
Front elevation of 1704 Travis Heights Blvd

Agents & Representation

For brokers

We welcome buyers' brokers and respect the role that real estate agents play.

If you have an actual potential buyer, please contact us for a showing.

If you do not have a potential buyer, feel free to contact us and we will schedule access for you.

Call or text 817-881-8175
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The property

1704 Travis Heights Blvd
Austin, Texas 78704
$1,999,000
3 bed · 2 bath · 2,583 sq ft · 6,969 sq ft lot
Built 1937 · renovated 2026

Due diligence

Disclosure, survey, inspection and permit records are available to brokers on request.

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Contact

Offered for sale by owner.
homeat1704@gmail.com
Family room

2013 — 2026

Thirteen years of renovations and improvements

The house, built in 1937, has undergone two major renovations, the first in 2013 featuring a two-story addition, and the second in 2026. Various improvements were made in the years between those two renovations. The result is a modern livable house that blends seamlessly with the original 1937 house and maintains its historical integrity.

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Permits, invoices and warranties are available on the documents page.

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Due Diligence

Documents

Disclosures, survey, inspection and renovation records. Most files are password protected — reach out by email or book a viewing and we'll be happy to share the password.

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