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Palo Alto Historic Buildings Inventory

936–938 Scott Street


Inventory photo	Photo taken December 12, 2010

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

Physical appearance: This queen Anne residence is a two–story wood frame structure with a decorative porch containing fanciful woodwork of the late Victorian era. The two–story bay with fish scale shingles dramatizes the emphatically vertical design of the building. Decorative ornamentation crowns the two staggered stair windows and animates the façade.

Significance: A modest but unusual and inventive version of the Queen Anne style, originally occupied by e. L. Greenleaf until 1918, then, 1919–1945, by Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Sorrells. Sorrells was a painting contractor (living next door, incidentally, to James Stroner, the city;s first painter, painting contractor, and paint merchant).

In the mid-50s, the house was divided into a duplex.

1895 plaque

Corrected location map

This house was built in 1895 and is a Category 3 on the Historic Buildings Inventory. The architect was H. L. Upham and the builder was (P.P.) Quinn and Upham. The 1903 work was done by Upham. The property measures 50 by 112.50 feet.

Sources: Palo Alto City Directories; Palo Alto Times 3/22/95, 5/17/95, 1/2/96, 9/11/03, 4/1/39, 6/2/44

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