The Wilkins Heath House

One of Austin’s most remarkable surviving Folk Victorian homes, the Wilkins-Heath House offers a rare opportunity to own a beautifully preserved piece of the city’s earliest residential history. Dating to the late 1880s, the home is a City of Austin Historic Landmark and contributing property within the Travis Heights-Fairview Park National Register Historic District. National Register documentation recognizes it among the district’s most elaborate examples of Folk Victorian architecture.

Set on approximately .33 landscaped acres just a few blocks from South Congress, the home retains an extraordinary collection of original and carefully restored details, including 11-foot ceilings, longleaf pine floors, millwork, pocket doors, shutters, beadboard, period hardware and a restored widow’s walk overlooking the Austin skyline. A years-long preservation effort earned the home a 2005 Heritage Society of Austin Merit Award for Historic Restoration.

Currently configured with two bedrooms and two baths, the home offers flexibility for a third bedroom as well as room for thoughtful future expansion. Updated kitchen and baths, plumbing and electrical improvements, dual-level HVAC, a tankless water heater and whole-house generator introduce modern comfort without competing with the historic architecture. Private, beautifully landscaped and remarkably intact, 1208 Newning offers something increasingly difficult to find in central Austin: an historic Austin home that has been carefully preserved and thoughtfully updated.

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