Palo Alto Stanford Heritage

National Trust Properties in Palo Alto

The following is from the 1994 National Register:

Criteria for Evaluation:

"To be listed on the National Register, properties must demonstrate significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that posses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and:

A. that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or

B. that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or

C. that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or

D. that have yielded or may be likely to yield information important in prehistory or history."

Criteria Exceptions:

"Ordinarily, cemeteries, birthplaces or graves of historical figures, properties owned by religious institutions or used for religious purposes, structures that have been moved from their original locations, reconstructed historic buildings, properties primarily commemorative in nature, and properties that have achieved significance withing the last fifty years shall not be considered eligible for the National Register. However, such properties will qualify if they are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria or if they fall within the following categories:

a. a religious property deriving significance from architectural or artistic distinction, or historical importance; or

b. a building or structure removed from its original location, but which is significant primarily for architectural value, or which is the surviving structure most importantly associated with a particular person or event; or

c. a birthplace or grave of a historical figure of outstanding importance if there is no other appropriate site or building directly associated with his productive life; or

d. a cemetery that derives its primary significance from graves of persons of transcendent importance, from age, from distinctive design features, or from association with historic events; or

e. a reconstructed building when accurately executed in a suitable environment and presented in a dignified manner as part of a restoration master plan, and when no other building or structure with the same association has survived; or

f. a property primarily commemorative in intent if design, age, tradition, or symbolic value has invested it with its own historical significance; or

g. a property achieving significance within the past fifty years if it is of exceptional importance."

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Palo Alto and Stanford Properties

Name of Property, Address, Date of Listing, Criteria for Evaluation/Exception, Registry ID Number

Hewlett–Packard House, Garage and Shed 367 Addison Avenue 4/20/07 07000307 2006 Preservation Award
T.B. Downing House 706 Cowper Street 10/30/73, C, 73000452
Kathleen Norris House 1247 Cowper Street 7/24/80/ B, C. a, 80000859 — read more
Pettigrew House 1336 Cowper Street 11/25/80 C 80000860
Palo Alto Stock Farm Horse Barn, Fremont Road, Stanford 12/12/85, A C. 85003325
Hanna–Honeycomb House 737 Frenchman's Road, Stanford 11/07/78, A C g NHL, 78000780 (Frank Lloyd Wright) — read more
Green Gables Eichler Subdivision: Channing Avenue, Ivy Lane, Greer Road, Wildwood Lane 7/28/05 04000863 — on 2008 Holiday House Tour
Greenmeadow Eichler Subdivision: Nelson Drive, El Capitan Place, Adobe Place, Creekside Drive 7/28/05 04000862 — on 2008 Holiday House tour
United States Post Office 380 Hamilton Avenue 4/05/81 A, C 81000175 (Designed by Birge Clark with input from Lou Henry Hoover, President Hoover's wife) — read more
Palo Alto Medical Clinic 300 Homer Avenue 6/21/10 10000357 — more
The Woman's Club of Palo Alto 475 Homer Avenue 1/7/15 14001114 — more
Dunker House 420 Maple Street 2/19/82 C 82002364 Designed by Birge Clark
Theophilus Allen House 601 Melville Avenue 5/20/90 99000580 —  read more
Lou Henry Hoover House 623 Mirada Road, Stanford 1/30/78 B, C, NHL 78000786 — read more
Professorville Historical District (marked by a plaque) Roughly bounded by Embarcadero Road, Addison Avenue, Emerson Street and Cowper Street 10/03/80 A, C 80000861 — More
Ramona Street Architectural District (marked by plaque) 518 – 581 Ramona Street and 255 – 267 Hamilton Avenue 3/27/86 C, g 86000592
MacFarland House 775 Santa Ynez Street, Stanford 7/21/06 06000659 2009 Preservation Award
World War I Hostess House 25 University Avenue 7/30/76 A C, 76000528 — Julia Morgan, architect, originally located in Menlo Park at Camp Fremont — read more
Southern Pacific Railroad Depot 95 University Avenue 4/18/96 96000425
Fraternal Hall 140 University Avenue / 514 High Street 2/15/90 A, C 90000119
Peck (Wilson) House 860 University Avenue 1/02/80 C 80000862 — read more
John Adam Squire House 900 University Avenue 3/06/72 C 72000255 — read more
Pedro deLemos House 100–110 Waverley Oaks 1/10/80 C, g 80000863 — read more
Kee House 2310 Yale Street 4/11/85 B, C 85000715

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