Worrell-Ettlinger House
3110 Harris Park Ave., Austin, TXThe Worrell-Ettlinger house was the first home built in the College Court subdivision and it still occupies a prominent corner lot at the corner of Harris Park Avenue and 32nd Street in central Austin. Built in 1912 for a UT professor and his wife, the house followed a fairly standard bungalow plan. In 1918 another UT professor, Hyman Ettlinger, and his wife Rosebud purchased the home, and lived there until their deaths in 1986. Over the years the Ettlingers made changes including a two-story addition, sun porch, and servants quarters, all of which maintained the same character and materials as the original and are within the period of significance. Developing an appropriately rustic setting for the craftsman bungalow was important to the Ettlingers as well. The large lot has always been lushly vegetated, and the live oak trees are such an important feature of the site that the addition was built around one of them. The house is nominated to the National Register of Historic places under criterion C in the area of architecture as an excellent local example of a Craftsman Style bungalow.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
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