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Palo Alto Historic Buildings Inventory

560 Everett Avenue


Inventory photo	Photo taken May 29, 2010

The following is from the Historic Buildings Inventory as revised in 1985:

Physical appearance: This two-story stucco Streamline Moderne house, with its porthole and pipe railings, projects a nautical image which was a major intention of the style. There is a matching garage. There have been minor alterations to the second floor.

Significance: This is a good example of the residential phase of the streamline Moderne stylistic movement. August and Minnie Knight were the first owners (1937 – 1945). Knight, a descendant of the Massachusetts Puritan leader, elder William Brewster, was pursuing a music career when, though still young, he was afflicted by deafness. This led to his development of a career as a nationally–prominent leader in the education of the deaf. In this field, he as assisted by Mrs. Knight in publishing materials for the teaching of lip reading.

Mrs. Nellie R. Hammond took the house in 1946. Between 1950 and 1971, it was occupied by a series of short–term tenants, and then in 1972 became the property of Don and Dalila Miller. In 1978 it was serving as a veterans transition facility.


Photo taken May 8, 2013

Photo taken May 29, 2010	Location map

This house was built in 1936 and is a Category 3 on the Historic Buildings Inventory. The builder was A. A. Smith. The property measures 50 by 200 feet.

Sources: Palo Alto City Directories; Palo Alto Times 11/4/36; 12/1/44; interview 1983, Dalila Miller

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