Outstanding middle class residential architecture examples (Austin, El Paso: assessor, custom home, neighborhoods)

[CptnRn]

Someone suggested in another thread that "architectural residential standards in Austin are very low". I don't think that is true and I'm providing some addresses here of what I think are outstanding architecturally designed middle class homes. Please add any addresses that you can point to.

You can look at images of these in Google maps, by putting the address in search and going to the street level view to see the house. These are not the best images possible but they might help one decide if they would like to drive by and get a better look.

There are even more outstanding examples in expensive neighborhoods, but I have tried to exclude those here as I'm focusing on what middle class families could afford if they wanted one. Most of these examples are still probably upper middle class as few others can afford a custom built home. Many of them are however built in existing central austin neighborhoods, some in disadvantaged neighborhoods that are becoming gentrified.

1350 West North Loop Blvd.
3404 S 2nd St
4009 Lewis Lane
4013 Lewis Lane
515 El Paso
2314 Shoalmont Drive
5502 Woodview Avenue
There are more along Woodview Avenue and this area that don't show up in google maps yet, some currently under construction.

You can find out more about the following houses from the annual AIA Home Tour websites.

2008 AIA Austin: Community: Homes Tour 2008 (http://www.aiaaustin.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=91 - broken link)
3900 Avenue G
2708 Rae Dell Avenue
411 W. Annie Street
2008 Riverview Street
5221 Musket Cove
911 East 13th Street
2309 East 8th Street

2007 AIA Austin: Calendar: Homes Tour 2007 (http://www.aiaaustin.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=108 - broken link)
2603 West 49th Street
909 Post Oak
1404 Garner Avenue
2101 De Verne Street
4312 Turkey Creek Drive ?

2006 AIA Austin: Calendar: Homes Tour 2006 (http://www.aiaaustin.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=46 - broken link)
1905 Eva
2802 Rivercrest Dr
4903 Red River
1619 S. Second Street

[Runemaster]

Is there a way you can post images/links to images of these homes? I really enjoy checking out neat homes. I miss the frontiersman attitude displayed by architects in the 'mid century modern' phase & wish new construction was as bold/innovative...

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

What is the price range?

[achtungpv]

If the house on Rae Dell is the one I'm thinking of, it was listed for around $750K. A great house but not exactly middle class like your headline states.

[TexasHorseLady]

There are also older homes that are "residential architectural examples" that might not make it onto a home tour because they were built so long ago and are simply being lived in by current residents and don't really serve to promote the work of current architects. There are several in Barton Hills that meet that criteria, as well as in other parts of the city. You likely wouldn't recognize them if you didn't already know what they were, or get to go inside, but they're there.

[centralaustinite]

Highland Hills is full of architect designed homes. Fabulous. Such wonderful touches inside and I love the way that homes relate to their site, having a connection to the particular setting is something that only architect designed homes have and that mass developments can't touch.

Lovely. Barton Hills is similar.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by Runemaster

Is there a way you can post images/links to images of these homes? I really enjoy checking out neat homes. I miss the frontiersman attitude displayed by architects in the 'mid century modern' phase & wish new construction was as bold/innovative...

If you click on those AIA home tour links provided above you can see photos of most of them.

Also the google map street view that I mentioned.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by achtungpv

If the house on Rae Dell is the one I'm thinking of, it was listed for around $750K. A great house but not exactly middle class like your headline states.

I have not tried to look up the prices of these homes. My saying they were in middle class areas was a goal, not a promise. I suppose you could check the prices at the Travis County tax assessor site.

They are located in neighborhoods where the average home prices are less than $200,000 according to this http://www.austin-chamber.org/DoBusiness/GreaterAustinProfile/Map_ExistingHomePrices.pdf (broken link) . Custom home prices usually are higher then the average price. But $750K is far higher then I would expect. That particular home is West of South Lamar but East of MoPac, and borders on the Barton Creek greenbelt, so it may be higher then what is indicated for South Central Austin.

Edit: TCAD puts that house assesed value at $437,000, the house next door is assessed at $288,000. That area is Barton Hills and some of it is probably a little out of reach, especially those with a Barton Creek view.