50% OFF Vintage MCM Architect's Home in Tarrytown w/ Years of Accumulated Treasures!

Austin Estate Sales is proud to present another packed-to-the-gills, multi generational Tarrytown Time capsule sale! 

This 3 day estate sale is that of Wilfred “Gus” Gustafson (b. Manor, Texas, 1914), an architect who left his stamp on Austin and surrounding communities designing homes, corporate offices, hotels and motels, and restaurants from 1945 until his death in 1985. Both he and wife Joyce were life long members of the Optimist (and Opt-Mrs.) club and fixtures of early Austin civic life.  Wilfred- who always went by the name “Gus” -received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas in 1939. Prior to and during World War II Gustafson worked on the design and construction of several defense projects but it was after the war that things really got rolling and he had a hand in (architectural plans and blueprints): Marine World, Sea Arama (Galveston, TX), Tides II Motor Inn, Terrace Motor Hotel, Villa Capri Restaurant, Texas Opry House, and O.K Bar at the Hemisfair among others.  Joyce McIlroy Gustafson (1921 – 2018) was a graduate of The University of Texas and was featured as a girl of the month by Ranger Magazine. She served as secretary to the General manager and as editor of the LCRA News. She later worked at UT for the School of Fine Arts Dean’s office and 17 years for the Austin Public Schools teaching business classes. She loved traveling and keeping up with old friends, she taught Ladies Bible Class at Highland Village Church of Christ for almost twenty years. 

Furniture from Early Texas to MCM to Architectural: pie safe, open wrought iron bakers rack/display, early 1900's enameled ice cream table with pull out stools from an ice cream parlor on the Drag, an ornate wrought iron presentation table purchased in New York in the 1960’s for the Terrace, various antique pieces: Texas, New Orleans, Victorian, Oak Mahogany, a red and green painted wagon built by Gus, pair of vintage cast iron stove base marble top tables, Custom assembled hand tiled 7 foot dining table with  cast iron legs,  two sets of 4 antique wood chairs, antique rockers and side chairs, Heywood Wakefield wicker baby carriage, Conant Ball desk, child’s rocker, child’s wooden potty chair and high chair, MCM sofas and side chairs built by Gus, vintage crib built by Gus, Lane Cedar chest, many lamps, trunks, file cabinets, brass umbrella stand shaped like an umbrella

Black lacquer Baldwin Acrosonic piano and piano bench

Items from The Summer House Restaurant on South Congress-Terrace Motor Hotel at 1201 South Congress:  Five foot filigree iron metal topped presentation table, antique hand carved marble sculpture Boy With Birds, signed Professore Eumere Baratta Roma 1861, 26” in height.

Architectural drawings, project files marketing materials and photographs. Austin hotels such as the Terrace Motor Hotel, as well as hotels throughout the Southwest; Sea Arama (Galveston aquarium), the University Avenue Church of Christ and Highland Village Church of Christ, as well as many other educational, public, commercial and residential buildings. 

China & Crystal: American cut glass, German and Bavarian china, brass, copper, art glass, glass paperweights, ceramics

Vintage Toys & Games: A collection of seven 1950’s Doepke pressed steel model toys in very good unused condition:  Heiliner earth scraper, two Rossmoyne firetrucks, Barber Green Bucket Loader, Jaeger Concrete Mixer, Euclid Construction scraper, Adams Diesel motor grader. Heywood Wakefield Plastikote childrens’ chairs, toys and games, dolls: Troll, plush, Cabbage Patch. Books: Comic Books and Cookbooks, 1960’s O’Henry letter jacket

Ladies clothing:  Vintage coats, furs, hats, Lucite purses, some newer clothes and shoes

Sewing:  Working heavy-duty industrial strength Singer 66-18 in cabinet with attachments, vintage linens, blankets, crochet

U.T.:  1969 championship tee shirt, Cactus yearbooks from 1941 and 1943, Texas Ranger magazines

Advertising:  Vintage Texas Field and Stream, House Beautiful, antique advertising tins,

Other Stuff:  Kitchen, Barware, vintage typewriters, antique wooden wall phone, Industrial Holophane street light, Christmas and seasonal, train accessories, derby car racing, miniature shoe collection, office supplies, wooden boxes, drafting, mid-century modern art, framing supplies, Asian kitsch, Texana, old paper & ephemera, wrought iron patio set with 4 chairs and table marked “Talzah", bricks and ironwork, 3 piece folding iron patio set

Books:  Russell Lee signed, Buck Schweitz signed, Charles Umlauf signed, Elizabeth Ley, Watercolor, Art, Woodworking, Garden, Birds, Dogs, Hunting, Leon Hale, Texas, Vintage Book of the Month with dust jackets, old bibles, Christian books and pamphlets, coffee table books

Vintage deer mounts and horns, 1960’s Brown Bear rug by famous Jonas Brothers Taxidermy Seattle and Anchorage, WWII gun holsters, ammo belt from Orvis (no guns in sale)

Fishing:  Huge collection of Heddon, Clark, South Bend, L&S Pikemaster, more vintage fishing lures and more priced individually, lots, and whole collections in fishing boxes

Art: sketches of early float designs from the Austin Aqua-Fest, 4 framed assemblages by Dallas butterfly wrangler Carl Axel Anderson (1888 – 1960), big eyed art painting signed Eric, several matching Tom Lea prints, original drawings, vintage Posters suitable for framing: 3 vintage Smokey the Bear US Forest Service , Italian ceramics co, with butterflies, Paper Mache owl from early Aqua Fest float

In addition to his work as an architect, Gustafson had an avid interest in art and specialized in pastels, watercolors, pencil drawings as well as wood carving with a focus on outdoor subjects such as old Texas barns, houses and native birds and animals. While Gustafson’s artwork was retained by the family we do have a large collection of his rural scenes in Central Texas of ranches, farms, houses, barns, outbuildings and businesses taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s Some of the Texas towns represented are: Stamford, Round Rock, Marble Falls, Fredericksburg, Smithville, Brackettville, Katy, La Grange, Hutto, New Sweden, Norman's Crossing and Llano.

Garage contents and power tools: A pickers paradise for your ranch, garage, man-cave, and shop!  Upcyclers, restorers and reclaimed material hunters take note! Jerry cans (WWII gas tanks) ammo boxes, military trunks, Ranch gear, various mechanical wenches, Trailer hitches, chains & hooks, industrial street lamp, RK truck window guard, Lyman mold master, led ingots, smelting equipment, Sears Craftsman 12” radial table saw with dust collector, Craftsman metal cutting bandsaw 4.5”, engine mount, Sears 220 volt air piston compressor, Sears Craftsman airless sprayer with adjustable spray tip, Craftsman powerwasher SHP 1800 psi, Sears electric wench, motorized grinding table, Hand tools (from ball peen hammers to sledge hammers,) power tools. Tool chests , storage, hardware, cast iron, dutch ovens,  enamelware, Camping tent, reclaimed wood and metal, lumber, flagstone, clay pots , architectural hardware wood, laminate, cedar shingles, reclaimed metal, cast iron wrought iron, sporting equipment, fishing, hunting, rifle and gun accessories, Outers skeet thrower machine, ammo and ammunition boxes, camping, yard and garden supplies, vintage sprinklers, garden tools, shovels, rakes, clippers, Sears wheelbarrow