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| Inventory photo | Photo taken February 24, 2014 |
The following is from the Historic Buildings Inventory as revised in 1985:
A large L-shaped Spanish Colonial Revival house: its street façade is almost unfenestrated, while the rear opens to an enclosed garden. The garden, the unusual decorative band of brick work at the eaves, and other elements of design reflect Moorish originals which the first owners studied in Spain. Construction began in 1931 with the studio; the main building was completed in 1935.
The structure is a superb example of the style from the hand of a major Palo Alto architect. It was built for e. Leslie Kiler and his wife Chrysella (nee Dunker). Kiler was a major landscape architect in Palo Alto and at Stanford University in the late 1920s and the 1930s. After service in the U. s. Air Force during World War II, he became a painter in Santa Barbara and Carmel.
The house was sold in 1942 to Nina M. Foley (widow of J. B. Foley), and, six years later, to Mrs. Hazel D. Burtis (widow of Prentice t. Burtis). She occupied it until 1967 when it was acquired by Patricia Evans. [Patricia Evans and Charles F. Weiss were identified as owners on the Inventory sheet.]
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This house was built between 1931 and 1935. and is a Category 2 on the Historic Buildings Inventory. The architect was Charles K. Sumner and the builders were Black and Campbell (studio) in 1931 and E. J. Smaling (main structure) in 1935. The property measures 206.28 by 85.20 feet.
See article from Palo Alto Daily News.
Sources: Palo Alto City Directories; Palo Alto Times 7/22/31; Sunset, 128, No. 4 (April 1962), p. 106-7; interview with E. Leslie Kiler, April 1981
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