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| Inventory photo | Photo taken March 11, 2020 |
The following is from the Historic Buildings Inventory as revised in 1985:
This rather austere building is given a Mediterranean Revival feeling by its irregular massing and tile roof.
An example of the formal, upper middle class residence of the post-World War I period, built for Owen D. Richardson, an attorney, who occupied it while his children attended Stanford.
Since 1933 is has been the home of the Blake C. Wilbur family. Dr. Wilbur, a prominent Palo Alto surgeon and the son of Stanford's third president, Ray Lyman Wilbur, was a co-founder of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic. Mary C. Wilbur was owner in 1983.
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Older photos taken July 31, 2011 Black and white photo by Robert Brandeis, circa 1996. |
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 Robert Brandeis photo c. 1996 |
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This house was built in 1920 and is a Category 3 on the Historic Buildings Inventory. The architect and builder are not known. The property measures 162.5 by 200 feet.
Sources: Palo Alto City Directories; Palo Alto Times 6/30/20, 7/7/20, 1/3/21, 12/7/68, 3/11/74; Palo alto Building Department files; Deed, John M. and Emma D. Stillman, grantors, to Owen D. Richardson, Book 518 (Deeds), p. 172, 6/15/20 (Santa Clara Co. Recorder)
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