2026 Spring Tour Schedule

Sunday, May 3 — Homer Avenue

Meet at Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, 475 Homer Avenue (corner of Homer and Cowper)

Old laundries, the church from the film Harold and Maude, and charming Victorian cottages are highlights of this Homer Avenue walk.

Developed at the same time as Stanford University and
originally mapped as “Palo Alto,” the terrace portion of Upper College Terrace is mostly in the upper half of the tract, bordering campus to the west.

Saturday, May 16 — Beyond Professorville
Meet at 1325 Cowper Street

Fine examples of Colonial Spanish Revival, Craftsman, and Queen Anne architecture including the magnificent 1925 Birge Clark-designed Casa Abierto, Casaquerida, and the Palo Alto Club.

Sunday, May 17 — Professorville
Meet at 1005 Bryant Street (corner of Bryant and Addison)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this beautiful and iconic tree-shaded Professorville neighborhood is the first historical district in Palo Alto.

Saturday, May 30 — Crescent Park
Meet opposite 526 Seneca Street at University Avenue

Sunday, May 31 — Boyce Ashby Addition
Meet at 1101 Fife (corner of Addison and Fife)

Admire some of Palo Alto’s most elaborate and oldest houses developed outside the former city limit of the 1890’s. Includes the grand 1896 Queen Anne Herzinger House on Forest Avenue, now under major restoration.

Sunday, May 31 — Greenmeadow
Meet at 4010 Nelson Drive

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its pristine mid-century modern-era Eichlers, this unique community in south Palo Alto provides a good look at the suburban utopia envisioned by developer Joseph Eichler in 1954.