Tarrytown is a neighborhood located west of Downtown Austin, Texas. The neighborhood boundaries are Lake Austin Boulevard on the south, Lake Austin on the west, West 35th Street on the north, and Mopac Expressway on the east. Major roads in the area include Exposition Boulevard, Enfield Road, and Windsor Road.

The land where Tarrytown currently exists was originally a 365-acre estate known as Woodlawn, containing a mansion designed in 1853 by master builder Abner H. Cook (who also designed the Texas Governor’s Mansion) for Texas State Comptroller, James Shaw. Shaw sold the estate to Texas governor Elisha M. Pease and his wife Lucadia Christiane Niles Pease in 1857.