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 6,989 square-foot lot shaded by mature heritage pecan trees and ancient crepe myrtles — on one of the most walkable blocks in Travis Heights.

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.

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

A Twelve-Minute Walk

Coffee, dinner, boutique hotels for out-of-town guests, and Austin’s main shopping street—all reachable without getting in the car.

June's All Day on South Congress — June's All Day

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 southeast 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, over the entire sixteen-year span between 1930 and 1946, there was only a relatively brief period (1934–1939) during which a meaningful number of houses were constructed in Travis Heights. The house at 1704 Travis Heights Blvd. is representative of this period and is entirely unique, as no two houses constructed in Travis Heights during this era are alike.

1938 map of Austin showing Travis Heights at the southern city limits, with 1704 Travis Heights Blvd marked in green — Austin in 1938 — Travis Heights at the southern edge of the city, farmland beyond. The house is marked in green.

The Stevie Ray Vaughan statue on Lady Bird Lake, with the Frost Tower behind it.

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 1980s, 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.

1704 Travis Heights Blvd

A 1937 cottage, grown into a family home

Inside the house

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

Floor plan

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Every room, unfurnished

Travis Heights, 78704

1704 Travis Heights Blvd
Austin, Texas 78704

Coffee, dinner, boutique hotels for out-of-town guests, and Austin’s main shopping street—all reachable without getting in the car.

Austin's first garden suburb

No two of them are alike

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A 1937 cottage, grown into a family home

Inside the house

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

Floor plan

Come see it in person

Every room, unfurnished

Travis Heights, 78704

1704 Travis Heights BlvdAustin, Texas 78704

Coffee, dinner, boutique hotels for out-of-town guests, and Austin’s main shopping street—all reachable without getting in the car.

Austin's first garden suburb

No two of them are alike

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1704 Travis Heights Blvd
Austin, Texas 78704