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"Prof" denotes an unclassified Professorville home. "*" indicates that the house displays a centennial plaque.
Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Gailen Avenue and Gailen Court were named by Wayne Brown of the Brown and Kauffmann developers to honor his father, Gailen Brown..\ He also named may Court, Nahan Way and Bibbbits Drive for family members.
734 Gailen Avenue	1958 / 1965				Brown and Kaufman
771 Gailen Avenue	1957				Brown and Kaufman
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Garland Drive is one of the first curved streets in Palo Alto. It was named for Temperance and John Garland who bought the 15 acre dairy land from Dr. W.H. Ketcham in the late 1920's and subdivided it into 72 parcels.
702 Garland Drive	1945
717 Garland Drive	1947
719 Garland Drive	1947
766 Garland Drive	1946
775 Garland Drive	1946
878 Garland Drive	1956
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Gary Court is named for the original property owners, Jack and Katherine Dymond's, granbdson. (Dymond Court, off Cowper Street, was named for them.)
467 Gary Court	2011
470 Gary Court	1951
473 Gary Court	1952
479 Gary Court	1949 / 1963
480 Gary Court	1953
489 Gary Court	1953
490 Gary Court	1951
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Genevieve Court was named for Genevieve Finson, the wife of Chris Finson of the builder/develooper firm of Finson and Oddstad.
3149 Genevieve Court	1952				Finson and Oddstad
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Georgia Avenue was named for the George and Georgia Reed who sold the land for ahousing development after World War II.
518 Georgia Avenue	2001
545 Georgia Avenue	1949
575 Georgia Avenue	1955
644 Georgia Avenue	2020
673 Georgia Avenue	1954
684 Georgia Avenue	1973
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Gerona Road, Stanford is named for a province in northeast Spain. The western end of Gerona Road was at one time named Alturas Drive. It connected to Foothill Road in the past.
415 Gerona Road	1938				Hyman	Hines, original resident
433 Gerona Road	1935				Charles Sumner	Carl Fremont Brand, original resident
440 Gerona Road	1928				Charles Sumner
524 Gerona Road	1939
536 Gerona Road	1929		2009 Preservation Award		Charles Sumner	more photos
562 Gerona Road	1923				Charles Sumner
576 Gerona Road	1926				Charles Sumner	Original owner Albert L. Guerard
593 Gerona Road	1926				Charles Sumner
610 Gerona Road	1936				William W. Wurster	Paul Eliel, original resident
635 Gerona Road	1927				John K. Branner
665 Gerona Road	1931					O. Blackman, original resident
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Gilman Street was named by property owner Kate G. Gilman for her husband Charles H. Gilman.
651 Gilman Street	1902 demolished	4
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Greenmeadow Way is located in the Greenmeadow tract of Eichler homes.
Greenmeadow Way			National Register Contributing Structure	2008 HHT		Eichler Homes
127 Greenmeadow Way	1959		National Register Contributing Structure			Greenmeadow Eichler
131 Greenmeadow Way	1959		National Register Contributing Structure			Greenmeadow Eichler
143 Greenmeadow Way	1959		National Register Contributing Structure			Greenmeadow Eichler
224 Greenmeadow Way	1954		National Register Contributing Structure			Greenmeadow Eichler
234 Greenmeadow Way	1954		National Register Contributing Structure			Greenmeadow Eichler
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Greenwood Avenue was named for Frank (Francis) Monroe Greenwood, a member of the pioneer real estate firm of Morris and Mershon. He was also president of the Greenwood Safe Company, the Sunset Telephone company, and served on several bank boards.
1037 Greenwood Avenue	1908	4
1122 Greenwood Avenue	1925		Deemed potentially eligible for the CRHR in 1998
1176 Greenwood Avenue	1946		Deemed NOT eligible for the CRHR or NRHP
1310 Greenwood Avenue	1946		Deemed potentially eligible for the CRHR in 1998
1491 Greenwood Avenue	1957
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Greer Road is named for one of Palo Alto's pioneer families. John Greer. an Irish seaman who leased land on the Rancho Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito married the widow Maria Luisa Soto de Copinger and gained control of the Soto Ranch and of Copinger's Ranch Canada de Raymundo in Woodside.
501 Greer Road	1951				Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
502 Greer Road	1950				Barrett & Hilp
516 Greer Road	1950
517 Greer Road	1951				Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
530 Greer Road	1950				Barrett & Hilp
531 Greer Road	1951				modified Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
543 Greer Road	1951				Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
544 Greer Road	1950				Barrett & Hilp
558 Greer Road	1950				Barrett & Hilp
559 Greer Road	1951	Non contributing	National Trust		modified Anshen & Allen / Green Gables Eichler
571 Greer Road	1951 /11982	Non contributing	National Trust		Ashen & Allen	alternate view
572 Greer Road	1950				Barrett & Hilp
586 Greer Road	1950				Barrett & Hilp
587 Greer Road	1950		Non contributing		modified Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
600 Greer Road	1950 / 2011
609 Greer Road	1950		National Trust		modified Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
614 Greer Road	1950 / 1980
623 Greer Road	1950 / 2017
628 Greer Road	1950				Barrett & Hilp
637 Greer Road	1950		National Trust		Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
656 Greer Road	1954
657 Greer Road	1950		National Trust		Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
675 Greer Road	1950 / 2011				highly modified Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler	alternate view
690 Greer Road	1955
693 Greer Road	1950		National Trust		Anshen & Allen /Green Gables Eichler
768 Greer Road	1948
782 Greer Road	1948
796 Greer Road	1948
2207 Greer Road	1957
2217 Greer Road	1957
2579 Greer Road	1973
2657 Greer Road	1958
2791 Greer Road	1951
3040 Greer Road	1959				Eichler
3048 Greer Road	1959				Eichler
3056 Greer Road	1959				Eichler
3119 Greer Road	1952
3125 Greer Road	c. 1952
3233 Greer Road	1952
3403 Greer Road	1957
3407 Greer Road	1957
3409 Greer Road	1957
3056 Greer Road	1957
3476 Greer Road	1957
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Address	Year	Inventory	Award	Tour	Architect/Builder	Other
Guinda Street was named by Timothy Hopkins because he liked the sound of it. Guinda is Spanish for wild cherry or wine–colored.
320 Guinda Street (original)						Original home deemed potentially eligible for the California Register by Dames and Moore in 1998.
328 Guinda Street	1913				James Arnott, owner/builder	Cost to build: $1,500 Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register by Dames and Moore in 1998.
336 Guinda Street	1997
348 Guinda Street	1924					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register by Dames and Moore in 1998.
365 Guinda Street	ca. 1908					Deemed potentially eligible for the National and California Registers by Dames and Moore in 1998.
381 Guinda Street	1908		2000 Preservation Award			Deemed potentially eligible for the National and California Registers by Dames and Moore in 1998.
421 Guinda Street	1904					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register by Dames and Moore in 1998.
433 Guinda Street	1947
434 Guinda Street	c. 1910					Deemed eligible for the NRHP in 1998; Eligible for the CRHR due to eligibility for the NRHP; (Initially deemed NOT eligible (Priority 1 List); Re-evaluated and found to be eligible for the NRHP
525 Guinda Street	2012
540 Guinda Street	1958
605 Guinda Street	c. 1922					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register of Historic Resources by Dames and Moore in 1998.
628 Guinda Street	1918					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register of Historic Resources by Dames and Moore in 1998.
641 Guinda Street	c. 1922					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register of historic Resources by Dames and Moore in 1998.
644 Guinda Street	1918					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register of Historic Resources by Dames and Moore in 1998.
744 Guinda Street	1926 / 1999
811 Guinda Street	c. 1922					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register of Historic Resources by Dames and Moore in 1998.
930 Guinda Street	1990
931 Guinda Street	2002
937 Guinda Street	1924
943 Guinda Street	1928
950 Guinda Street	1997
1050 Guinda Street	1926 / 1960
1118 Guinda Street	1989
1135 Guinda Street	c. 1922					Deemed potentially eligible for the California Register of Historic Resources by Dames and Moore in 1998.
1740 Guinda Street	2001
1885 Guinda Street	1945

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