Austin Mid-Century Modern - White stucco near the center of Austin
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Address: 4 Inwood Circle
City: Austin
State: Texas
Zip: 78746
Neighborhood: Rollingwood
Beds: 3
Baths: 3.5
Year Built: 1971
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Garage Size: 1 Car Garage 1 Car Carport
Square Feet: 3300
Lot Size: .75 Acres
Status: Active
Price: $1,675,000
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Full Description:
Mid-century modern white stucco house set in a grove of live oaks on a rock-terraced ravine near the center of Austin.
The house is a modern sculpture set in nature. The forms are pure and simple. The spaces are open. Huge windows and open interiors blur the distinction between indoors and out. Interior spaces open to each other, and to views of the pool and its decks, a rock-terraced ravine, open woodlands, a dry creek, the canopy of a centenarian live oak, and views of distant hills across the river. Windows do not need coverings because the house and grounds are designed for privacy.
The south wing of this mid-century modern house was designed and built in 1971 by Austin architect and developer Walter Vackar for himself and his family. It received a Citation award for design from the Austin Chapter of AIA. Vackar’s 1989 remodeling included an award-winning kitchen and a new north wing. In 2002 Evan Tanaguchi (architect of the Palmer enter and son of Vackar’s 1970s partner Alan Y. Tanaguchi) renovated parts of the interior and added an upper deck off the living room, keeping true to the original look.
A covered front porch with Italian tile floats behind curved glass-block privacy walls. The triangular entry room has a floor-to-ceiling glass corner. It opens to a living room with a 16 foot ceiling and walls of windows looking across the pool and ravine and up at the live oaks and sky. French doors on the east wall open to a 16' by 16' deck projecting between the pool and the old quarry-road ledge below and the live oak canopy above. The west side of the living room opens to the dining area, with its windows on the north and east and breakfast counter on the west dividing it from the kitchen. A gallery above the dining room opens the high space of the living room to the upper-floor suite. All the floors are oak, and walls are white.
The second floor is one space, open to the living area and gallery. It has large windows and beautiful views of the hills. The lights at Old Main (the University of Texas tower) are visible in the distance. The suite has a large walk-in closet and full bath.
In the kitchen, custom Italian cabinets finished in mahogany and black laquer float above the oak floor. A Jenn-air halogen cooktop fits flush in one Avonite counter, and a Kitchen-aid dishwasher under another. A black laquer storage unit encloses a Sub-zero refrigerator and Gaggenau ovens. A half bath and utility room are next to the kitchen.
A master suite in the north wing has a bedroom area, a sitting area with floor-to-ceiling windows in a bay above the pool garden, and an office area with built-in desks along two walls and built-in bookshelves. A modern, efficient fireplace warms the space. The bathroom has an open two-person shower area with two north windows: one in the wall looking at the tops of trees and the other an angled skylight looking up at the clouds. It is like showering under the sky. The room has two sinks, marble counters, European cabinets, a separate toilet area, and tile floors. A pocket door opens to a two-person walk-in closet with lots of built-in storage.
A guest apartment has a separate entrance next to the pool. Its open design includes a living/dining/kitchen area with high ceilings. The kitchen has a cooktop, microwave, small refrigerator, and lots of cabinets. Floor to ceiling windows overlook rock terraces, the dry creek, and private woods. A bed area with a greenhouse sitting space looks out at the pool. Behind it is a large closet and a small bathroom with a shower/bathtub and separate sink area. The bedroom area is carpeted. The rest of the guest apartment is tiled.
The house sits on 3/4 of an acre, stepping down in natural and manmade rock terraces from a semicircular street at a ridge top into a ravine. The xeriscape garden with native plants was landscaped in 2002. The third of the lot closest to the street is a grove of live oaks, with understory of cherry laurels, cedar elms and native plants. The pool and its decks and patios begin on the level of an old quarry road, about a third of the way down into the ravine, and project over the steepening drop. Boulders and rockwork create terraces and stairs that lead from the pool decks to the wet-weather creek at the bottom of the ravine. The streetside gardens have a sprinkler system for summer droughts. The rock gardens and woods of the old quarry road and boulder terraces need no irrigation: Texas mountain laurel, nandina, primrose jasmine, prickly-pear cactus, bamboo muhly and native grasses, and agave tolerate drought. The grounds have outdoor areas to sit or entertain in shade or sun with various views of rock terraces, ravines, creekbed, and distant hills. These include a covered patio with sautillo tile and ceiling fan, an open flagstone patio, a pool deck, and an upper deck off the livingroom.
Community Features
The house is in a quiet neighborhood a short distance from much of what makes Austin one of America’s most engaging cities. The property is within a five minute drive (20 minute walk) of the Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail (with 10 miles of trails), close to Mopac (Loop 1), the Austin Nature Center, Botanical Gardens, Barton Springs Pool, and Zilker Park, which is the site of South by Southwest and Austin City Limits and is the origin of the 17 mile Barton Creek Greenbelt for hiking, trail biking, and rock climbing. The Umlauf Sculpture Garden, the Palmer Center, the Zach Theater, Austin Lyric Opera’s Long Center and the restaurants of Barton Springs Road are all within 2 or 3 miles. We bike to the University of Texas on Town Lake Trail and quiet streets (about 5 miles). Area 8E. Subdivision: Rollingwood. Rollingwood Sec 1 Lot 4 Blk F. School district: Eanes ISD.
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