P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1051 W EL CAMINO REAL City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-2515 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 18901147 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Mission Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Concrete Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable, Parapet Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Fixed, Transom Window Material: Wood
Porch: None Garage: Surface Parking Lot
Other Architectural/Site Features: On same lot as separate retail commercial building at 1063 W. El Camino Real. Two buildings share rear parking lot.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1955; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
ZERAATI HASSAN, 1051 W EL CAMINO REAL,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 1051 W EL CAMINO REAL
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Mission Revival
*B6. Construction History: 1051 W. El Camino Real was built in 1955. No notable exterior observations based on visual observation. *B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1955 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
1051 W. El Camino Real is a commercial building located along El Camino Real corridor in Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. Newspaper records indicate that the property was purpose-built as a barbershop in 1955, and has been continuously operated as a barbershop since. Traditional barbershops, especially purpose-built barber shops, became increasingly rare in the later 20th century as they were replaced by chain salons, or relocated to the suburbs and malls.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The adjacent commercial building at 1063 W. El Camino Real is evaluated on a separate DPR 523 form.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
1051 W. El Camino Real appears eligible for listing in the Mountain View Register under Criterion c (Architecture) as a rare post-WWII building typology and as a free-standing, purpose-built barbershop. The period of significance is 1955, the year of construction. The property retains a high level of historic integrity with its original form, design, and windows and doors.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing, as a freestanding, one-story structure Gable roof with stepped parapet
Stucco cladding
Original wood windows and doors with divided lites and transom above the door Old-fashion style barber pole.
Continuation of B12. References:
“Haircuts 1.25!” The Peninsula Times Tribune, August 29, 1957, 28.
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*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1414 W EL CAMINO REAL City: Mountain View Zip: 94040 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15431072 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Commercial Modern Plan Shape: Square Construction Type: Wood Frame, Steel Frame Number of Stories: 1 Roof Style: Flat Roof Material: Not Visible
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood - Panel Window Style: Storefront Window Material: Metal
Porch: None Garage: Surface Parking Lot
Other Architectural/Site Features: Flat cantilevered eave is curved at each corner. Storefront windows are angled upward and outward; a metal pipe column provides structural support at the front corners behind the windows. A second commercial building is located on the property; a Ranch style multi-unit building addressed 1442-1456 El Camino Real. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1953; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
LO DICK WAH AND KHIEW-LO JILL TRUSTEE,
25705 OKEEFE LN, LOS ALTOS HILLS CA 94022
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 1414 W EL CAMINO REAL
B1. Historic Name: Jane's Steak House; El Zarape Drive-in B2. Common Name: Chicken G's
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Commercial Modern
*B6. Construction History: 1414 W Camino Real was constructed in 1953. No major exterior alterations have been noted. Minor alterations include a replacement door and changes to signage.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1953 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
1414 W El Camino Real is a drive-in restaurant along the El Camino Real corridor designed in the Commercial Modern style and is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The property was opened as Jane's Steak House restaurant in 1953, and starting in 1955 operated as the El Zarape Drive-in. The El Zarape Drivein was operated by the Velasco family through the 1980s. From analysis of Google Maps Street View data, the subject property has since transitioned occupants but has continued to be used as a drive-in restaurant.
The subject property also includes a nondescript postwar Ranch style commercial building at 1442-1446 W El Camino Real that is not eligible as a historical resource under any criterion.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
1414 W El Camino Real does not appear individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, 1414 W El Camino Real appears eligible for the Mountain View Register under Criterion c as a rare, extant Commercial Modern drive-in restaurant, and under Criterion b for its association with post World War II auto-oriented commercial patterns of development along the El Camino Real corridor in Mountain View. The building retains all aspects of integrity and has a period of significance of 1953, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Flat roof with cantilevered, curved eaves
Storefront windows angled upward and outward
Stucco cladding
Metal pipe column at corner of storefront window
Masonry bulkhead
Spatial relationship and orientation to El Camino Real.
Continuation of B12. References:
Google Maps, Street View, (2007-2023). Accessed June 2024.
Ken Slegmann. “El Zarape: ‘Part of Our Family.’” The Peninsula Times Tribune, February 23, 1987, 31. “Old Fashioned Thanksgiving.” Daily Register, November 23, 1954, 3. “Pinball Raid Nets Three Along ECR.” Mountain View Register Leader, no. 110 (June 5, 1958): 1.
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*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1901 W EL CAMINO REAL City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-2216 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 17006006 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Late Moderne Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Flat Roof Material: Metal - Standing Seam
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Aluminum Window Style: Storefront, True Divided Lites Window Material: Metal Porch: None Garage: Attached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Speed lines and flat cantilevered canopy with curve at corner; window grilles on side facade, roll-up metal garage doors
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1958; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
METRULAS FAMILY LIVING TRUST, 12312
CANYON TER, NORTH TUSTIN CA 92705
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 1901 W EL CAMINO REAL
B1. Historic Name: Walt's Texaco Service
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Auto-Related Commercial/Light Industrial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Late Moderne
*B6. Construction History: 1901 W El Camino Real was built in 1958.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1958 Property Type: Auto-Related Commercial/Light Industrial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Late Moderne style auto garage located at the north end of the El Camino Real corridor in Mountain View, associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The business opened as Walt's Texaco Service by 1960 and has continued to operate as an auto-oriented building since. While the original architect is unknown, the building is notable as a rare extant example of auto-oriented Late Moderne architecture on El Camino Real.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
From visual analysis, several storefront windows and garage doors have been replaced within their original openings. No further alterations have been noted.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
1901 El Camino Real appears eligible for the Mountain View Register under Criterion c (Architecture) as a rare extant auto-oriented building designed in the Late Moderne style, associated with the post-World War II automobile-oriented commercial development of El Camino Real.
The period of significance is 1958, the year of construction. Despite possible alterations to the storefront window systems and garage doors, the property retains its overall design, massing, and pattern of openings including the distinctive speed lines, curved canopy, garage openings, and large window openings. As such, the property retains sufficient overall historic integrity for listing in the Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall scale and massing
Flat roof
Stucco siding
Flat, cantilevered corner canopy with curved ends
Three-stripe speed line motif
Full-height glazed window openings
Two garage openings.
Continuation of B12. References:
“Firestone Sale," Peninsula Living, May 14, 1960, 6.
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*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 2674 W EL CAMINO REAL City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-1117 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 14816004 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Quonset hut Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Prefabricated Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Quonset hut (barrel) Roof Material: Metal - Corrugated Exterior Material: Metal - Corrugated Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: True Divided Lites Window Material: Metal Porch: None Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Two buildings on property. South (front) building is a simple rectangular, one-story, flat roofed building with faux stone siding. North building is a Quonset hut style prefabricated building, as described above. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP8. Industrial building
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1948; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
LOZANO MANUEL J TRUSTEE & ET AL, 123
GOLDEN OAK DR, WOODSIDE CA 94028
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 2674 W EL CAMINO REAL
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Agricultural B4. Present Use: Auto-Related Commercial/Light Industrial *B5. Architectural Style: Quonset hut
*B6. Construction History: Aerial photography shows that the Quonset hut on the site was constructed by 1948, consistent with information on record at the Santa Clara County Assessor. The small Commercial Modern building in front of the Quonset hut was built at an unknown date in the late twentieth century. No major exterior alterations to either building were uncovered through research or observation. *B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Agricultural & Industrial Development (1945-1959) Area: Mountain View
Period of Significance: 1948 Property Type: Agricultural Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The subject property is located on the north side of West El Camino Real, west of San Antonio Road, and features a small one-story Commercial Modern building and a Quonset hut style prefabricated building, originally constructed in 1948, that are both associated with the theme of Agricultural & Industrial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. "Quonset hut" style prefabricated buildings are commonly associated with rapid American military expansion during World War II as they were designed to be quick and inexpensive to construct. These were generally one-story buildings meant for use as barracks, hospitals, and administration buildings, although some designs with larger dimensions similar to the Quonset hut building at the subject property did exist.
Many of the companies contracted by the U.S. government to build Quonset huts also sold similar or derivative designs to civilian customers, meant for agricultural, industrial, or temporary residential applications during and following the war. Quonset hut style buildings were marketed and sold across the nation through the 1950s. While it is possible that the building dates to the World War II era, the dimensions and height of the building represent a small minority of Quonset hut style buildings constructed for military use, and it was more likely built after the war. Research into drawings of World War II era Quonset huts and post-war civilian newspaper advertisements ("Quonset 40," The Peninsula Times Tribune, July 30, 1946) show that the subject building more closely resembles post-war civilian market designs through the arrangement and size of openings, and lite arrangement of the windows.
Research did not uncover the original owner or occupant of the property. The property is not shown on available Sanborn maps, but an aerial photograph from 1948 indicates that the Quonset hut was surrounded by agricultural fields, indicating that it was likely used for storage or other ancillary support purposes. The first known tenants of the property based on newspaper research was the Factory Showroom, a furniture store, from 1972 through 1975.*
**The property was occupied by Eurodesign, another furniture store See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is a rare extant example of a Quonset hut style building from the 1940s with high integrity in Mountain View, and is eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion c (Design), as a distinctive example of this building type and method of construction. The period of significance is 1948, the year the building was constructed. The other building on the property, at the south end of the parcel fronting El Camino Real, does not contribute to the significance of the Quonset hut.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall Quonset hut massing and form
Original corrugated steel cladding
Original steel windows
Original wood garage doors
Original steel louvered vent above garage door.
Continuation of B12. References:
Flight CDF5, Frame 2-82, California Division of Forestry, 1948. University of California Santa Barbara Library, Frame Finder.
Google Street View (2007, 2012, 2023).
“Quonset Hut.” Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation (DAHP), 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170627101154/http://dahp.wa.gov/styles/quonset-hut. "Quonset 40," The Peninsula Times Tribune, July 30, 1946. “Quonset Hut Manuals.” U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, August 30, 2020. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/seabee/explore/online-reading-room/Publications/quonset-hutmanuals0.html.
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*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 2690 W EL CAMINO REAL City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-1117 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 14816001 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Googie Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Steel Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Flat, Cable-suspended Roof Material: Metal
Exterior Material: Open Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Storefront Window Material: Metal
Porch: Not Applicable Garage: Surface Parking Lot
Other Architectural/Site Features: Steel V-bracing with circular cutouts with cable-suspended flat roof. Car wash is open with no walls or doors. Roof has an angled soffit so that profile at each end is a very obtuse triangle. 3-D parrot sign mounted on free standing pole. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1962; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
LOZANO MANUEL J TRUSTEE, 2690 W EL
CAMINO REAL, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 2690 W EL CAMINO REAL
B1. Historic Name: Lozano Car Wash
B2. Common Name: Kaady Car Wash
B3. Original Use: Auto-Related Commercial/Light Industrial B4. Present Use: Auto-Related Commercial/Light Industrial *B5. Architectural Style: Googie
*B6. Construction History: The building opened as Lozano Car Wash in 1962, and has continued to function as a car wash since. A drawing in an advertisement for the grand opening suggests that there may have originally been a V-shaped steel sign on the property, which is not extant. It is not known when the 3-D parrot sign was installed.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Parrot Sign
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1962 Property Type: Auto-Related Commercial/Light Industrial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Googie style carwash located at the north end of the El Camino Real corridor in Mountain View, that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The business opened as Lozano Car Wash in 1962 and was described as "the newest and most modern car wash in Northern California" in Palo Alto Times (8/23/1962). The tall angled steel beams and a cable-suspended roof exemplifies the the futurist and structurally exuberant Googie style was originally associated with Los Angeles coffee shops but was later adapted to other commercial building types and was meant to eye-catching to passing automobile traffic. The same design was used for other Lozano Car Wash and Tan's Touchless Car Wash locations on the peninsula during the 1960s, as well as the National Car Wash chain in Southern and Northern California. Googie style car washes were less common in Northern California than Southern California, and are becoming an increasingly rare property type.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
A detached, tall flat canopy structure was demolished c. 2021-22, based on Google Street View, but may not have been original and did not contribute to the Googie character of the property. The car wash was recently rehabilitated in 2023 and opened under new ownership as Kaady Car Wash.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
2690 W El Camino Real is significant as a full expression of Googie style architecture and a rare extant example of Googie style car wash, associated with the post-World War II automobile-oriented commercial development of El Camino Real. The property is eligible for listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register with a period of significance of 1962, the year of construction. The property retains all aspects of historic integrity.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
V-shaped steel beam structure with circular holes;
Cable-suspended metal roof with slender, flared triangular profile; Largely open structure with exposed car wash equipment; Visibility from and orientation to El Camino Real.
Continuation of B12. References:
Hess, Alan. "Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture." San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2004.
Google Street View. Accessed online May 2024, https://www.google/com/maps. "Grand Opening!" Palo Alto Times, August 23, 1962.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1960, 1968, 1980. Accessed online May 2024, https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer. "Roadside Architecture: Buildings, Signs, Statues & More." Roadside Architecture. Accessed online May 2024, https://www.roadarch.com/modarch/carwash5.html.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 555 ELLIS ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94043-2205 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 16055004 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Late Modern Plan Shape: Irregular
Construction Type: Reinforced Concrete Number of Stories: 2 Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Not Visible Exterior Material: Concete Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Storefront Window Material: Aluminum
Porch: Not Applicable Garage: Surface Parking Lot
Other Architectural/Site Features: Unique late-twentieth-century futuristic angled facade with downward angled windows and concrete supports and upward angled parapet features.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1979; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
RENAULT & HANDLEY EMPLOYEES INVESTMENT,
625 ELLIS ST STE 101, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
94043
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 555 ELLIS ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Tech/Corporate Office Park B4. Present Use: Tech/Corporate Office Park *B5. Architectural Style: Late Modern
*B6. Construction History: 555 Ellis Street was built in 1979. No major exterior alterations were noted based on visual observation. *B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Renault & Handley
*B10. Significance: Theme: Technology & Innovation - Birth of Silicon Valley (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View
Period of Significance: 1979-ca.1997 Property Type: Tech/Corporate Office Park Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a two-story research and development building located in the Whisman Station area of Mountain View, designed in the Late Modern style and associated with the theme of Technology & Innovation-Birth of Silicon Valley (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement." The building was developed on speculation in 1979 by Renault & Handley, an industrial and commercial real estate development firm. It was first occupied by the Electronic Arrays Divisions of NEC Electronics Inc. (Nippon Electric Company). NEC was founded in 1898 in Japan and originally produced telephones and switches. In 1978, NEC acquired Electronic Arrays, Inc. and expanded to California to begin producing semiconductor chips during a period of peak production in Silicon Valley, before the industry began to offshore more of this type of production and shift focus to personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s. The building was occupied by NEC as an office and research space through ca.1997, but it is unclear whether semiconductor chips were ever produced onsite. 555 Ellis Street has continued to function as a research and development facility since its construction.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject building is a distinctive example of Late Modern architecture with a dramatic, futuristic angled parapet and inverted front facade window system. 555 Ellis Street is significant as a full expression of Late Modern style architecture, associated with commercial and industrial development within the context of office and technology parks in Silicon Valley. The property is eligible for listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register under C/3/c (Design) with a period of significance of 1979, the year of construction.
Additionally, the property is locally eligible under Mountain View Register Criterion b (Events) for association with the expansion of the high technology sector in Mountain View through corporate ties to the Pacific Rim. The property does not appear to rise to a level of significance required for individual listing in the National Register and California Register under Criterion A/1 as the property is not sufficiently significant within the long and globally expansive history of NEC. With no known major exterior alterations, the property retains all aspects of historic integrity.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Futuristic angled primary facade and window system
Angled, projecting parapet
Concrete exterior supports and panels
Concrete panelling
Recessed secondary entrances
Storefront window systems.
Continuation of B12. References:
“Assembler Trainees.” San Jose Mercury News, November 1, 1981, 123.
Elizabeth A. Treacy. “NEC Corporation.” Britannica Money, July 12, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/money. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/28/business/business-people-osafune-of-nec-leads-silicon-valley-incursion.html Renault & Handley. “Our History.” Accessed July 16, 2024. https://www.renault-handley.com/company/history/. “Renault & Handley.” San Jose Mercury News, April 7, 1979, 123.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 655 EUNICE AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-3875 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 19732002 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Asbestos/Fiber Cement Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Fixed, Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Engaged, Partial Width Garage: Attached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Exterior brick chimney; partially exposed basement; gable dormers. In addition to the main residence, the property includes two ancillary buildings converted to accessory dwelling units and a swimming pool. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1924; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
WUNDERMAN GILDA S TRUSTEE, 655 EUNICE
AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 655 EUNICE AV
B1. Historic Name: Blue and Gold Kennel Club; Whitehall Distillery; Burton's Gold Medal Distillery B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk
*B6. Construction History: The main residence, carriage house, and servants quarters on the property were originally constructed in 1924.
Observed alterations on the primary building include the construction of a second story sunroom projecting from the south roof slope, the addition of a metal spiral staircase on the west facade, and possible re-cladding sometime between 2007 and 2024.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Carriage house, servants quarters B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: c. 1928 - 1938 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: A/1 (Events) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
The property includes three National Folk and vernacular style buildings: a two-story single-family residence, a carriage house, and a servant's quarters. The property is located in the currebt Cuesta Park neighborhood and is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The buildings were originally constructed in 1924 for Nicholas Kristmas as a farm estate. By 1928, it was bought by George "Tex" White, an alleged Chicago gangster. During the prohibition era, different parts of the property were used for gambling, illegal distilleries, two different basement bar speakeasies, a bordello, and a ballroom. The temperance movement was popular amongst the many Seventh-day Adventist residents of Mountain View, and the local Pacific Press publishing company was a vocal proponent of prohibition. However, White operating out of 655 Eunice Avenue was far outside the cities boundaries at the time. Around 1930, a greyhound racing track was constructed south of the ancillary buildings. The property was seized by federal authorities in 1938 and put up for auction. The property was purchased by Harold Skinner, who demolished the greyhound racing tracks and sold off undeveloped parts of the property to the east and south, reducing the property to its current extent. Skinner then used the property as a single-family home, and subsequent owners have continued that use through the present.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner. *B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
Observed alterations on the rest of the property include the conversion of the servants quarters into an accessory dwelling unit and the construction of a swimming pool sometime between 1991 and 2002.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The property appears to be eligible for the National Register and California Register under Criterion A/1 at the local level, for its unique association with the prohibition era and use as an illegal distillery, speakeasy, brothel, and casino. The property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing under any other criteria. The period of significance begins with its illegal commercial uses, c. 1928, and ends with its seizure by federal authorities, 1938. Despite minor alterations such as the addition of a second story sun room, a metal spiral staircase, and possible recladding, the property appears to retain integrity of location, setting, design, feeling, and association, and has sufficient overall historic integrity for listing in the National Register and California Register under Criterion A/1. This evaluation does not address Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Original form and massing
General layout and siting of the main residence, carriage house, and former servants quarters Cross-gable roof
Gable dormers
Fenestration pattern and original wood windows and doors Engaged (recessed) front porch
Exterior brick chimney.
Continuation of B12. References:
"Blue and Gold Kennel Club," bronze plaque, erected at 655 Eunice Avenue by E Clampus Vitus Chapter No. 1850 "Mountain Charlie," October 13, 2018.
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
Google Earth (1991, 2010).
Google Street View (2011, 2021).
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002.
University of California, Santa Barbara Library FrameFinder, historic aerials (DATE). Accessed online June 2024, https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 350 FRANKLIN ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1230 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15812020 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Engaged, Partial Width Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Front-gabled roof with subsidiary integrated gable above a corner bay window, and overhanging eaves with wood knee brace brackets and exposed rafters. Two detached garages are set back at the rear of property. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1916; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
MCCAIN LINA, 350 FRANKLIN ST, MOUNTAIN
VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 350 FRANKLIN ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: 350 Franklin Street was built in 1916. The property first appears on the 1921 Sanborn Map as a one-story, woodframe residential building with a protruding corner bay at the southeast corner of the primary facade and a recessed, partial-width open porch at the northeast corner, consistent with the current overall form and footprint of the building. A detached garage is shown set back from the main residence in 1921, and a second detached garage was added by 1943.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1916 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Craftsman bungalow in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910- 1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. Archival research did not uncover any notable owner or occupants associated with events or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history. It is not likely to yield information important to history or prehistory, has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder, and does not possess high artistic merit.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
The attic appears to have been converted to a living space sometime after 1956 when a double-hung window was likely installed at the primary gable end, and the front stair railings are likely non-original. All other exterior materials and features of the main residence appear unaltered. A review of aerial photographs shows that the detached garage at the rear of the parcel was rotated and moved, and an addition and replacement door were added to the second garage (closer to the main residence).
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. It is a good local example of a Craftsman bungalow with high integrity from the 1910s in downtown Mountain View and therefore retains eligibility for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion c (Design). The building appears to have few exterior alterations and overall historic integrity. The period of significance is 1916, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing,
Front-gabled roof
Overhanging eaves with knee-brace brackets and exposed rafters Recessed, partial-width porch with square posts and wood railing Corner and side bay windows
Horizontal clapboard siding
Fenestration pattern, including original one-over-one double-hung windows with wood sash and ogee lugs.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1948-2020. Accessed online October 2024, https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1908, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 394 FRANKLIN ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1230 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15812024 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Drop/Groove Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Partial Width Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: One-story gabled addition and shed additions at rear are visible from California Street. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1899; Mountain View Historic Resources List
*P7. Owner and Address:
CAVANAUGH ANNE AND MURPHY MICHAEL,
418 W DANA ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 394 FRANKLIN ST
B1. Historic Name: Campbell House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk
*B6. Construction History: The building was originally constructed in 1899. At the time of its construction, the building was part of a small complex of stables, agricultural buildings, and wagon sheds used for the original owners' transportation business. By 1943, all of the various ancillary buildings were demolished, and the extant detached garage was constructed in the rear yard facing California Street.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1899 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a one-story single-family Folk Victorian style residence located in Old Mountain View associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally constructed in 1899 for James Campbell. Campbell was a farmer, teamster, and roadmaster, and the subject building was originally part of a larger complex of stables and wagon sheds to serve his transportation businesses. Members of the Campbell family lived at the subject property until the early 1950s. Subsequent occupants of the building include Robert and Martha Nash, who operated a clothing store on Castro Street in the late 1950s.
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance or historic integrity for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. The property continues to be eligible for the Mountain View Register under Criterion c (Design) as a rare extant example of a Folk Victorian residence from the nineteenth century.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
Between 1956 and 2002, the original full-length porch at the primary facade was reduced to a partial-length porch, and a variety of original doors and windows were replaced with compatible wood replacements.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The residence has some alterations, including the original full-width porch being changed to a partial width porch and two rear additions which are visible due to the siting of the corner lot. However, replacement windows appear to be compatible and the rear additions do not detract from the overall form, massing, or design of the residence particularly as viewed from the front. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for the Mountain View Register. The period of significance is 1899, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Original form and massing (excluding rear additions)
Hip roof
Wood clapboard siding
Fenestration pattern and presence of hung wood windows.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View, "394 Franklin Street input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 13, 2002.
Google Street View (2008, 2022).
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1908, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
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P1. Other Identifier: 572 FRANKLIN ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 570 FRANKLIN ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1907 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15810045 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Minimal Traditional Plan Shape: T-Shape Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Fixed, Double-Hung Window Material: Vinyl, Wood Porch: Portico Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Cottage court formed with adjacent property (574 Franklin St). Vertical wood board with scalloped bottoms in the gable ends; wood shutters.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1940; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
MYCY FAMILY LP, 877 INDEPENDENCE AVE,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 570 FRANKLIN ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Multi-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Minimal Traditional
*B6. Construction History: 570 Franklin Street was built in 1940. An aerial photograph from 1939 shows the subject parcel as undeveloped, with the surrounding areas partially infilled with residential housing, larger institutional buildings, and tracts of open space. By the late 1940s, an aerial photograph shows the subject parcel developed with the existing configuration of buildings; two single-family residences flank a detached two-car garage, which all face a shared driveway with the adjacent parcel at 574 Franklin St.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Garage
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1940 Property Type: Residential - Multi-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
570 Franklin Street is a Minimal Traditional style bungalow court located in Old Mountain View, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The subject property was built in 1940, however, the original architect and builder were not identified through research. Together with the adjacent parcel at 574 Franklin, the combined properties form an interwar bungalow court designed in the Minimal Traditional style. The bungalow and the cottage (bungalow) court became popular residential forms in Mountain View during the 1910s to 1940s, and several neighborhoods adjacent to the downtown core exhibit these trends, including Shoreline West and Old Mountain View. bungalow courts provided additional density on standard residential subdivision lots while fitting in with the context and character of single-family residential neighborhoods. bungalow courts typically include small, one-story bungalows--either attached or detached--that are arranged in a U-shape or in a line around a shared courtyard or drive. bungalow courts were often designed in modest expressions of popular styles of the era, ranging from Craftsman to Spanish Colonial Revival to Minimal Traditional.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
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CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
570 Franklin Street appears to have been constructed at the same time as the adjacent property at 574 Franklin Street, which has a matching design and site arrangement. From visual analysis, it appears that several wood sash windows and front doors on each unit have been replaced with vinyl. No other exterior alterations were noted.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is a good local example of an interwar cottage (bungalow) court, and is eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criteria b (Events) and c (Architecture), with a period of significance of 1940. The property expresses the unique characteristics of a bungalow court, which was a residential typology that was popular in the early and mid-twentieth century, and embodies the characteristics of the Minimal Traditional style. As one of only a few extant bungalow courts in Mountain View, the properties at 570 and 574 Franklin Street exhibit architectural features that more expressive of an architectural style than some more modest bungalow court examples. Several windows and front doors may have been replaced, however, window replacements appear to be either in-kind or retain the original window shape. Apart from these alterations, the subject property retains integrity.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form, massing, and siting, including relationship with adjacent property (574 Franklin Street) One-story massing
Cross-gable roofs
Stucco cladding with scalloped vertical boards
Wood shutters
Double-hung and picture windows
Detached garage with wood plank double doors
Shared central driveway.
Continuation of B12. References:
California Division of Forestry. Flight CDF5, Frame 435. April 1, 1948. Photograph. University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections.
Fairchild Aerial Surveys. Flight C-5750, Frame 3965. January 1, 1939. Photograph. University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
Review Code Reviewer Date
P1. Other Identifier: 576 FRANKLIN ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 574 FRANKLIN ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15810046 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Minimal Traditional Plan Shape: T-Shape Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Double-Hung, Fixed Window Material: Vinyl, Wood Porch: Portico Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Cottage court formed with adjacent property (570 Franklin Street). Vertical wood board with scalloped bottoms in the gable ends and wood shutters.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1940; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
MYCY FAMILY LP, 877 INDEPENDENCE AVE,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
690
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 574 FRANKLIN ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Multi-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Minimal Traditional
*B6. Construction History: 574 Franklin Street was built in 1940. An aerial photograph from 1939 shows the subject parcel as undeveloped, with the surrounding areas partially infilled with residential housing, larger institutional buildings, and tracts of open space. By the late 1940s, an aerial photograph shows the subject parcel developed with the existing configuration of buildings; two single-family residences flank a detached two-car garage, which all face a shared driveway with the adjacent parcel at 570 Franklin Street.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Garage
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1940 Property Type: Residential - Multi-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
574 Franklin Street is a Minimal Traditional style bungalow court located in Old Mountain View, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The subject property was built in 1940, however, the original architect and builder were not identified through research. Together with the adjacent parcel at 570 Franklin, the combined properties form an interwar bungalow court designed in the Minimal Traditional style. The bungalow and the cottage (bungalow) court became popular residential forms in Mountain View during the 1910s to 1940s, and several neighborhoods adjacent to the downtown core exhibit these trends, including Shoreline West and Old Mountain View. bungalow courts provided additional density on standard residential subdivision lots while fitting in with the context and character of single-family residential neighborhoods. bungalow courts typically include small, one-story bungalows--either attached or detached--that are arranged in a U-shape or in a line around a shared courtyard or drive. bungalow courts were often designed in modest expressions of popular styles of the era, ranging from Craftsman to Spanish Colonial Revival to Minimal Traditional.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
574 Franklin Street appears to have been constructed at the same time as the adjacent property at 570 Franklin Street, which has a matching design and site arrangement. From visual analysis, it appears that several wood sash windows and front doors on each unit have been replaced with vinyl. No other exterior alterations were noted.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is a good local example of an interwar cottage (bungalow) court, and is eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criteria b (Events) and c (Architecture), with a period of significance of 1940. The property expresses the unique characteristics of a bungalow court, which was a residential typology that was popular in the early and mid-twentieth century and embodies the characteristics of the Minimal Traditional style. As one of only a few extant bungalow courts in Mountain View, the properties at 570 and 574 Franklin Street exhibit architectural features that more expressive of an architectural style than some more modest bungalow court examples. Several windows and front doors may have been replaced, however, window replacements appear to be either in-kind or retain the original window shape. Apart from these alterations, the subject property retains integrity.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form, massing, and siting, including relationship with adjacent property (570 Franklin Street) Cross-gable roofs
Stucco cladding with scalloped vertical boards
Wood shutters
Double-hung and picture windows
Detached garage with wood plank double doors
Shared central driveway.
Continuation of B12. References:
California Division of Forestry. Flight CDF5, Frame 435. April 1, 1948. Photograph. University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections.
Fairchild Aerial Surveys. Flight C-5750, Frame 3965. January 1, 1939. Photograph. University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
692
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
Review Code Reviewer Date
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 392 HOPE ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1350 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15823032 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Mediterranean Revival Plan Shape: L-Shape Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Double-Hung, Palladian Window Material: Wood Porch: Portico Garage: Surface Parking Lot
Other Architectural/Site Features: Overhanging eaves with carved wood rafter tails; fully glazed, multi-lite wood door and sidelights at primary entrance; wood sign reading "California Apartments"; and turned wood balustrade on roof of the entrance portico. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1928; The Peninsula Times Tribune, July 31,
1928.
*P7. Owner and Address:
JONES JAMES CARROLL JR TRUSTEE & ET AL, 441
VIEW ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 392 HOPE ST
B1. Historic Name: California Apartments
B2. Common Name: California Apartments
B3. Original Use: Residential - Multi-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Mediterranean Revival
*B6. Construction History: The building was originally constructed ca. 1928. The subject parcel originally included two detached garages, which were demolished between 1963 and 2000. No major exterior alterations were uncovered by research or through observation. *B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Earl D. Minton
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: ca. 1928 Property Type: Residential - Multi-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: A/1 (Events), C/3 (Design)
Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a two-story apartment building located in downtown Mountain View designed with Mediterranean Revival style influences associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was the first modern apartment building in Mountain View, originally constructed c. 1928 by Earl D. Minton. Earl Minton also operated the Minton Lumber Company on Evelyn Street (demolished), and a construction company that built the subject building, the Palmita Park subdivision (1924), and many other vernacular and high-style houses in Mountain View in the early twentieth century. Minton also served as a City Council member from 1915 to 1934, and mayor between 1924 and 1928. The first owner of the building appears to be Earl Minton's Brother, Henry Minton, who lived in a single-family home on the adjacent parcel to the west at 734 California Street (demolished).
Occupants of the subject building include a variety of rental tenants.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The property appears to be eligible for listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register under Criterion 1/a (Events) and Criterion 3/c (Design). The building is the first modern apartment building in Mountain View, and is also a good local example of the Mediterranean Revival style as applied to the small apartment building typology. It is not directly associated with Earl Minton's professional and civic accomplishments, and is therefore not eligible under Criterion B/2/b (People). The period of significance is the year the building was constructed, 1928. The building retains all aspects of historic integrity and overall retains integrity for listing in the California Register and the Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Shallow-pitch hip roof with overhanging eaves
Exposed carved rafter tails
Fenestration pattern and original wood double-hung windows Primary entrance within portico with fully glazed multi-lite wood door and sidelights Wood balustrade over entry portico
"California Apartments" sign over entry
Wood Palladian style window with divided lites.
Continuation of B12. References:
"Convenient Parking," Photograph, Mountain View Public Library, ca. 1960.
Mary Jo Ingoff, "Milestones: A history of Mountain View, California," California History Center (Cupertino, CA), 2002, p 103. "Mt. View Man Hit by Palo Alto Car," The Peninsula Times Tribune, July 31, 1928.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
University of California, Santa Barbara Library FrameFinder, historic aerials (1963). Accessed online October 2024, https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
695
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PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 403 HOPE ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2018 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15823049 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Fixed, Single-Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Portico Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Large stuccoed portico columns; chimney. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1922; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
MELLBERG-MCPHAIL GRETCHEN TRUSTEE, 403
HOPE ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 403 HOPE ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: The building and detached garage were originally constructed in 1922. The garage was enlarged sometime after 1943, and the garage door was replaced sometime before 2007. No notable exterior alterations were uncovered through research or observation.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1922 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a one-story single-family Craftsman style residence located in downtown Mountain View associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally constructed in 1922. The earliest known owner and occupant was Luella Thomas, the mother-in-law of Henry Minton, Earl Minton's Brother. Earl Minton operated the Minton Lumber Company on Evelyn Street (demolished) and a construction company that built many vernacular and high-style houses in the early twentieth century. Minton also served as a City Council member from 1915 to 1934, and mayor between 1924 and 1928. Luella Thomas moved from the subject property to 734 California Street (demolished) by 1940, and the property was briefly occupied by John and Bernice Newman. By 1950 the property was later owned by Joseph and Hazel Thomas, the son and daughter-in-law of Luella Thomas, respectively.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. The property is a good example of a Craftsman style residence from the 1920s in Downtown Mountain View, and is eligible under Mountain View Register Criterion c. The period of significance is the year the building was constructed, 1922. The property retains all aspects of historic integrity for continued listing in the Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Hip roof
Portico with hipped roof and square, stuccoed columns with curved upper corners Fenestration pattern with original wood windows
Main entrance with sidelights.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View, "403 Hope Street input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 15, 2002.
Google Street View (2008, 2023)
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
United States Federal Census (1930, 1940, 1950). Accessed online June 2024, Ancestry.com.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 425 HOPE ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2018 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15823067 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Wood Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung, Fixed Window Material: Vinyl, Wood Porch: Enclosed Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Small hipped dormer and square bay window at primary facade; exterior brick chimney. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1900; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
KIRBY ROBERT W AND LANDSMAN HELEN C
TRUSTEE, 425 HOPE ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 425 HOPE ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk
*B6. Construction History: The building was originally constructed ca. 1900. By 1943 a detached garage was built at the rear of the parcel.
Between 1956 and 1991, the original front porch was enclosed and a one-and-a-half story addition was constructed at the rear of the building.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: ca. 1900 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a one-and-a-half-story single-family Folk Victorian style residence located in downtown Mountain View associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally constructed c. 1900 for the Giles Ruch family. Angela Ruch, daughter of Giles Ruch, was an operator at the Sunset Telegraph and Telephone company from 1905 to 1919, later the chief operator at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. From c. 1920 through c. 1935, the building was owned and occupied by Arthur Palmer, the Mountain View Treasurer and City Librarian.
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance or historic integrity for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. The property is a rare extant example of a Folk Victorian style residence from the 1900s in Old Mountain View, and remains eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion c. The period of significance is the year the building was constructed, c. 1900.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. *B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
700
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. The porch, although enclosed, remains legible, and the rear addition, though large, is set back and distinguished enough from the original portions of the building so that the original form and massing of the building is still legible. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Original massing and form (excluding rear addition)
Hip roof with hipped roof dormer
Horizontal wood siding
Partial width front porch
Square bay window
Original fenestration pattern
Exterior brick chimney.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View, "425 Hope Street input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 15, 2002.
Google Earth (1991).
Google Street View (2009, 2023).
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1888, 1891, 1897, 1904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
United States Federal Census (1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950). Accessed online June 2024, Ancestry.com.
Various letters and ephemera, ca. 1906. In possession of the property owner.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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P1. Other Identifier: 786 HOPE ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 782 HOPE ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2047 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15809006 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Mediterranean Revival Plan Shape: H-Shape Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Spanish Clay Tile
Exterior Material: Stucco, Masonry - Brick Primary Door Material: Wood - Panel Window Style: Casement Window Material: Steel
Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: Carport
Other Architectural/Site Features: Garden apartment with elements of Art Moderne that are reflected in the stepped staircase railing, entryway, and large multi-lite steel casement windows at the corners. Mediterranean Revival details reflected through wrought iron strapping and decorations on the doors; plaster swag and shield ornamentation; decorative light fixtures; and exposed roof brackets. Stepped, recessed doorways. Brick sills below windows.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1948; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
BUDZICH TERESA TRUSTEE, 620 HAMILTON AVE,
PALO ALTO CA 94301
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 782 HOPE ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name: 782-786 Hope Street
B3. Original Use: Residential - Multi-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Mediterranean Revival
*B6. Construction History: 782-786 Hope Street was built in 1948. The detached carport was constructed concurrently with the apartment building, as evidenced by a 1948 aerial photograph.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Detached Carport
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1948 Property Type: Residential - Multi-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a multi-family residential garden apartment building located in Old Mountain View designed in an eclectic Mediterranean style that incorporates Art Moderne elements, and is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement." The original architect or builder was not found through archival research.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
No major exterior alterations have been noted based on permits or visual observation.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
782-786 Hope Street appears eligible for listing in the National Register and California Register at the local level under Criterion C/3, and in the Mountain View Register under Criterion c as a unique example of the garden apartment typology, notable for its distinctive architectural design in the Mediterranean Revival style with Art Moderne influences. The property has no notable exterior alterations and retains sufficient overall historic integrity for listing in the National Register, California Register, and the Mountain View Register. The period of significance is 1948, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Compound, hipped roof
Clay barrel roof tiles
Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters
Stucco cladding
Stepped, recessed entryways
Staircase with stepped railing and semicircular opening at the first story Original fenestration pattern, including corner window locations Multi-lite steel casement windows
Wrought iron light fixtures
Brick window sills
Wood doors with metal straps and decorative grilles
Plaster crest and swag ornamentation
Detached carport.
Continuation of B12. References:
Fairchild Aerial Surveys. Flight C-5750, Frame 3965. January 1, 1939. Photograph. University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections. https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/apcatalog/report/report.php?filed_by=C-5750.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1948-2020. Accessed online December 2024, https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1390 LATHAM ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1806 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15425031 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Irregular
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Gable, Gable-on-Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Wood - Drop/Groove, Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Casement, Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Partial Width Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Overhanging eaves with carved wood rafter tails and fascia boards. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1912; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
BERNAT ANDREW R TRUSTEE & ET AL, 1390
LATHAM ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 1390 LATHAM ST
B1. Historic Name: James H. Cochran Residence
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: The single-family residence was constructed in 1912, according to the Santa Clara County Assessor. The property appears on the 1921 Sanborn map, which shows a 1.5 story residence that is approximately square in plan with projecting bays at the primary (west) and north side facades and a rear open porch.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1912-1947 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion a (Persons), MVRHR Criterion b (Events) Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family residence located in the Shoreline West neighborhood designed in the Craftsman style that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The residence was part of the larger pattern of residential development in surrounding blocks spurred by the need to house employees of the Pacific Press Association, whose printing facility was located nearby at 1340 Villa Street. The neighborhood now referred to as "Shoreline West" grew as a residential area at what was then the west edge of Mountain View following the 1904 relocation of the Seventh Day Adventist publisher, the Pacific Press publishing company from Oakland, where it was established in 1874. Some 100 Seventh Day Adventist families moved to the area with the business, building their homes in the blocks along Mariposa Street, Pettis Avenue, Palo Alto Avenue, and Mountain View Avenue. The Pacific Press Association established an industrial enterprise in a town which previously had a population of around 600 and whose economy was based in agriculture. In subsequent decades, members of the Seventh Day Adventist community also built local institutions such as the Mountain View Academy high school, established in 1922, and became active in local politics. By the start of World War II, the neighborhood consisted of dense residential blocks interspersed with patches of orchards remaining from its previous agricultural use. The publishing plant remained in operation in Mountain View until 1984, when operations relocated to Idaho and the site was redeveloped.
The first known occupant of the residence was James H. Cochran (1869-1958) and it is likely that it was constructed for Cochran, who moved to Mountain View from Kansas City, Missouri in 1912. Cochran had worked as a branch manager for the Pacific Press Publishing Association in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved to Mountain View in 1912 to manage the periodical department at the relatively new Pacific Press printing press facility. He became general manager in 1932, and served on the board of management from 1912 until his retirement in 1941.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
The 1946 and 1956 Sanborn maps show the same footprint but describe the property as a two-story residence. The property was listed in the Mountain View Register in 2004 and the property owners entered into a Mills Act contract with the City of Mountain View in December 2008. An extensive remodel and addition project was approved by the City of Mountain View in May 2008, and construction appears to have commenced in the same month based on Google Street View. The 2008 alterations included: in-kind replacement of all exterior wood siding; replacement windows and the main entry door; wood entrance portico addition; dormer addition; one-story rear addition with a covered porch; and replacement of the wood railing at the second-story balcony. Most of the original wood windows at the primary (west) and north side facades appear to have been replaced with new wood windows with wood simulated divided lites. The original second-story railing had a simple, open wood balustrade and was replaced with a new railing that has solid panels that appear to be metal. Solar panels were added on the north slope of the main roof c.2008-11. A garage, built c.1921-1946, appears to have been enlarged or replaced.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
Cochran also quickly became involved and influential in local Mountain View business and politics, serving as a member of the Town Board (1915-1928), President of the Board in 1921-22, and Mayor in 1918-20 and 1922-24. James Cochran and his wife, Brigitte, moved to 740 Bush Street in 1947. Although retired by this time, Cochran became chairman of the Board of Freeholders which wrote the City's new charter, passed in 1952, earning him the honor of "Citizen of the Month." The property is eligible as an individual historic resource for association with James H. Cochran, an important civic leader in Mountain View's early history and important business figure within the leadership of the Pacific Press, one of the main local employers. The property is also eligible for association with the broader pattern of residential development in Shoreline West, spurred by Pacific Press. The property is an unusual and altered expression of the Craftsman style; as such, it does not possess high artistic value or embody the distinctive characteristics of the Craftsman style.
The property retains its original location and setting within the Shoreline West residential neighborhood, and association with this early pattern of development and James H. Cochran. However, the property has undergone a number of notable exterior alterations, including a rear addition at the northwest corner which is highly visible from the public right-of-way due to the corner siting of the property, as well as a dormer addition and an added pergola at the front entrance. These additions have diminished the legibility of the original design, form, and massing. All exterior siding has been replaced in-kind and windows have generally been replaced with compatible replacements, but the second-story railing has been replaced with solid panels that do not reflect the original Craftsman style. The replacement of original materials and features has diminished the integrity of materials, workmanship, and feeling. Due to the cumulative alterations, the property lacks sufficient historic integrity to meet the thresholds for listing in the National Register and/or California Register. As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register, especially those that are significant for association with an event or person. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility under Criteria a (Persons) and Criterion b (Events).
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Two-story massing;
Gabled roof with overhanging eaves, and carved rafter tails and fascia boards; Hipped roof skirt at first story;
Original fenestration pattern, including window openings at primary (west) and north side facades, window operability, and pattern of lites;
Fully glazed entry door with large sidelites; and
Horizontal wood groove siding with wood shingles in gable ends.
Continuation of B12. References:
Allen Nikitin Architect, "Addition and Remodel: 1390 Latham Street." Permit drawings approved May 9, 2008, on file at City of Mountain View.
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." April 1979. "Death takes J. H. Cochran, ex-MV mayor," Peninsula Times Tribune, June 13, 1958.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002. "James H. Cochran, 'Citizen of the Month,'" Peninsula Times Tribune, February 11, 1952.
Pacific Press. "History." Accessed online at https://www.pacificpress.com/our_story/history/, October 2024.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
United States Federal Census (1920, 1930, 1940, 1950). Accessed online October 2024, Ancestry.com.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull
* Resource Name or #: 1390 LATHAM ST
* Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
1390 Latham Street, c.1979.
Source: "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage," City of Mountain View, April 1979. 1390 Latham Street, Dec. 2007.
Source: DPR form by Carey & Co. in "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vol. II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
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P1. Other Identifier: 113 E MIDDLEFIELD RD
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 280 LESLIE CT City: Mountain View Zip: 94043-3814 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 16029021 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage Plan Shape: Cross Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Arched, Casement, Dormer, Stained/Leaded Glass Window Material: Wood Porch: None Garage: Carport
Other Architectural/Site Features: Steeply pitched roof; exterior stucco chimney; leaded glass in all visible front and side windows; some pointed arch windows; wood bracketed canopy over round arch front door; gabled dormers; and decorative half-timbering in some gable ends. A carriage house consisting of a dwelling unit over a garage is located at the rear corner of the parcel. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1914; City of Mountain View
*P7. Owner and Address:
DELUCCHI MAY TRUSTEE, 8401 CHENIN BLANC
LN, SAN JOSE CA 95135
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 280 LESLIE CT
B1. Historic Name: Robledad
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage *B6. Construction History: The residence and carriage house were originally constructed in 1914. They were originally on a larger property surrounded by a grove of oak trees. Between 1948 and 1965 a wood-frame carport was constructed at the south side of the building.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Charles H. Sawyer b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1914 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family residence located at Leslie Court, on the south side of Middlefield Road between Tyrella Avenue and North Whisman Road, designed in the Tudor Revival style that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally the summer home of Charles Haight Sawyer (1868-1952), an architect of merit and San Francisco's municipal Architect, under various titles, from 1914 to 1938. Although no original permit is on file at the City of Mountain View, Sawyer likely personally designed the subject building, and he named the estate "Robledad" for the groves of oak trees that originally surrounded the building. While described as either a vacation estate or summer home in newspaper articles, the 1920 Census lists Charles Sawyer and his wife, Georgia, as the occupants, meaning it was considered their primary residence by that time. By 1925, Sawyer moved to 1020 Union Street in San Francisco, where he would live until 1937 when he retired to 1275 Dana Avenue in Palo Alto. From 1925 to at least 2008, the building was owned and occupied by Giovanni and Teresa Delucchi and their descendants. Giovanni Delucchi was a truck gardener (meaning small scale commercial farming) from 1914 to 1953 when he retired. Aerial photography does not suggest that the property itself was ever used for commercial agricultural purposes, and Delucchi likely located his business operations elsewhere.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner. *B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
In the 1970s, a portion of the original property was subdivided and sold to various residential developers, the address of the property was changed to 280 Leslie Court, and the second story of the carriage house was converted to an accessory dwelling unit. Around 2010 the original wood shingle roof on the primary residence was replaced with asphalt shingles.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The property appears to be eligible for the National Register, California Register under Criterion C/3 at the local level as an excellent example of the Tudor Revival style designed by architect of merit Charles Sawyer. The property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing under any other criteria. The period of significance is 1914, the year of original construction. Despite alterations to the setting such as the demolition of the original oak grove that surrounded the building and the infill of single-family homes surrounding the property, and the construction of a carport on the south side of the building, the property appears to retain other aspects of integrity. The property has sufficient overall historic integrity for listing in the National Register and California Register. This evaluation does not address Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing (excluding carport addition)
Steeply pitched cross-gable roof with gabled dormers
Exposed rafter tails
Leaded glass windows in square and pointed arched openings Stucco cladding
Arched primary entrance covered by wood bracketed extensions of the gable roof * **Interior and exterior stuccoed chimneys Decorative half-timbering in gable ends
Carriage house including overall form and massing, wood shake Dutch gable roof, stucco cladding, and original wood frame windows.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
City of Mountain View, "113 East Middlefield Road input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 15, 2002.
City of San Francisco, Article 10 Landmark Application, 35-45 Onondaga Avenue, February 17, 2016.
Google Earth (2009, 2010).
"Long illness ends in death for Mr. Delucchi," The Peninsula Times Tribune, April 18, 1963. "Sawyer-Steele," The Peninsula Times Tribune, September 8, 1918.
United States Federal Census (1920). Accessed online June 2024, Ancestry.com.
Various aerial photographs. Mountain View Public Library. Ca. 1960.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1655 LLOYD WY City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-2924 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 18958065 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: T-Shape
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Casement Window Material: Wood, Wood-Clad Porch: None Garage: Port-Cochere
Other Architectural/Site Features: Shed roof dormers; alternating width bands of shingle cladding; exposed rafter tails and beam ends; and carved wood brackets at grouped portico columns.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 12, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1920; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
DEBACKER PAUL D AND LAURA L TRUSTEE, 1655
LLOYD WAY, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 1655 LLOYD WY
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: 1655 Lloyd Way was built in 1920 on a 30,000 square foot orchard farm. The property has since been subdivided and developed with new single-family residences. In 2000, the residence was rotated 90 degrees on the lot. *B7. Moved? No ✓ Yes Unknown Date: 2000 Original Location: Same parcel, rotated 90 degrees. *B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1920 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family residence located in the Cuesta Park neighborhood designed in the Craftsman style, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The subject property was built in 1920 and was originally part of a 30,000-square-foot orchard. The large size of the house and notable design features suggest that the property's original owners operated a prosperous orchard. However, the names of the original owners were not confirmed through research.
1655 Lloyd Way appears to be eligible for individual listing in the National Register and California Register, and is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. It is eligible under Criterion C/3/c for its high-style Craftsman design and prominent scale and massing in an eclectic style that combines elements of Tudor Revival through the use of exposed brackets and beams, jerkinhead (clipped) gables, shingled cladding, groupings of casement windows, and elaborated column brackets at the porte cochere.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. *B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
While the property has been rotated on its parcel and the orchard has been developed, the residence still retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and feeling which are most essential to conveying architectural significance. As such, the property retains overall integrity. The period of significance is 1920, the approximate year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Primary volume above a port cochere
Jerkinhead (clipped) gable roof
Overhanging eaves with exposed carved rafter and beam ends Shed roof dormers
Shingle cladding with rows of alternating widths
Fenestration pattern with casement windows with divided lites Grouped porte cochere wood columns with carved brackets.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
Judy, Barbara A., and Lorraine Weiss. “Historic Evaluation Integrity and Impacts Mitigation for the Planned Unit Development at 1655 Lloyd Way, Mountain View.” March 16, 2007.
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 302 LORETO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2240 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15830047 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Eclectic Period Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Compound, Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Arched, Double-Hung Window Material: Vinyl Porch: Engaged, Partial Width Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Small blind eyebrow dormer; flared gable roof eaves *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1927; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
GOEBEL ANDREAS AND CHERYLLE N, 302
LORETO ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 302 LORETO ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Eclectic Period Revival
*B6. Construction History: The building and detached garage were both constructed in 1927. An original enclosed rear porch was remodeled into a typical internal room in 1930. Around 2010, original windows on the primary facade were replaced. *B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Garage
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: The Minton Company
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1927 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property has a one-story single-family home and detached garage located in the Palmita Park neighborhood with Colonial and Tudor Revival influences associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 302 Loreto Street was built in 1927 as part of the development of Palmita Park, a subdivision planned and built by the Minton Lumber Company.
Palmita Park subdivision is a residential neighborhood bounded by Bush, Dana, and Velarde Streets and Calderon Avenue. It was developed over 20 years, beginning in 1924, by the Minton Lumber Company and Bert Holeman, a local businessman. The Minton Lumber Company was founded in 1911. Bert Holeman was a Kansas native who arrived in Mountain View in 1912. He founded the First National Bank in Mountain View, for which he served as president until 1925. In 1923, the Minton Lumber Company bought 9.5 acres fronting Calderon Avenue from W. A. Goodpasture and 4.5 acres fronting Bush Street from Bert Holeman. Holeman collaborated with the Minton Company to promote residential development on the combined 14 acres. A contest to name the new subdivision elicited the name Palmita Park; palm trees were planted along the Bush Street frontage in honor of the subdivision’s new name. In March 1924, Palmita Park was annexed to Mountain View. Between 1924 and 1925, the developers graded, curbed, paved, and installed sewer, water, gas, electric and telephone service for lots along the frontage on Bush, Loreto, Anza, and Velarde Streets. In 1926, the Minton Company added Westinghouse electroliers (streetlights) to the subdivision. Lots were sold only to buyers who, at the time of purchase, made a contract with the Minton Company for the construction of a home. The contract included the planting of lawns and shrubbery, and house sites were established with a common setback and uniform distance from lot lines.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
302 Loreto Street was originally purchased by John J. Clancy, a San Francisco police officer, in April 1927 shortly before construction was completed. Occupants since 1927 include a wide variety of generally short term owner-occupants, including clerks, managers, and Minton Company employees.
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. The property is a good example of a small 1920s cottage with Colonial and Tudor Revival style influences in the Palmita Park neighborhood, built by the Minton Company, a significant local lumber company.
The property has had only minor alterations including replacement windows within original openings, so retains historic integrity for continued listing in the Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall massing and form
Cross-gable roof with flared eave
Wood fascia boards
Blind eyebrow dormer
Original fenestration type and wood window surrounds
Arched wood louver vents in gable ends
Wood lap siding
External brick chimney at the east facade
Engaged corner porch
Detached garage.
Continuation of B12. References:
"$250 Down, $40 a Month Buys This Attractive Bungalow," The Mountain View Register Leader, January 24, 1930. "Another Minton Home is Sold," Mountain View Register Leader, April 1, 1927. "Boom makes rapid progress in Palmita Park," Mountain View Register, May 1, 1925.
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
Google Street View (2009, 2011).
Kayne, Melanie and Kyle Hartzell. "Palmita Park: Clippings that reveal the rich history of home." Self-published, 2024. "Mt View May alter Plan of Assessment," The Peninsula Times Tribune, October 2, 1930.
United States Federal Census (1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950). Accessed online June 2024, Ancestry.com.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 484 LORETO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2161 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15830060 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Mission Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Compound Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Bay Window, Double-Hung, Fixed Window Material: Wood Porch: Portico Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Complex plan and massing with Mission Revival parapets and pedimented gables. Bay window with projecting eave and attached planting bed. 12-over-one double hung wood sash windows with ogee lugs. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1924; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
PURSIFULL RALPH E JR, 484 LORETO ST,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 484 LORETO ST
B1. Historic Name: Alfred and Emily Olsen House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Mission Revival
*B6. Construction History: 484 Loreto Street was the first residence to be constructed in the Palmita Park Subdivision in 1924. It was built by Alfred Olsen of the Minton Lumber Company, who was the first owner and occupant and an executive of the company.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Garage
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Minton Lumber Company; Alfred Olsen *B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1924 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
484 Loreto Street is a Mission Revival style single-family residence located in Old Mountain View, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 484 Loreto Street was the first residence built in 1924 in the Palmita Park subdivision, which was planned and built by the Minton Lumber Company.
Palmita Park subdivision is a residential neighborhood bounded by Bush, Dana, and Velarde Streets and Calderon Avenue. It was developed over 20 years, beginning in 1924, by the Minton Lumber Company and Bert Holeman, a local businessman. The Minton Lumber Company was founded in 1911. Bert Holeman was a Kansas native who arrived in Mountain View in 1912. He founded the First National Bank in Mountain View, for which he served as president until 1925. In 1923, the Minton Lumber Company bought 9.5 acres fronting Calderon Avenue from W. A. Goodpasture and 4.5 acres fronting Bush Street from Bert Holeman. Holeman collaborated with the Minton Company to promote residential development on the combined 14 acres. A contest to name the new subdivision elicited the name Palmita Park; palm trees were planted along the Bush Street frontage in honor of the subdivision’s new name. In March 1924, Palmita Park was annexed to Mountain View. Between 1924 and 1925, the developers graded, curbed, paved, and installed sewer, water, gas, electric and telephone service for lots along the frontage on Bush, Loreto, Anza, and Velarde Streets. In 1926, the Minton Company added Westinghouse electroliers (streetlights) to the subdivision. Lots were sold only to buyers who, at the time of purchase, made a contract with the Minton Company for the construction of a home. The contract included the planting of lawns and shrubbery, and house sites were established with a common setback and uniform distance from lot lines. Construction started from Bush Street at Loreto and moved east toward Calderon Avenue. Advertisements in the Mountain View Register Leader in 1924 and 1925 suggest that some of the subdivision’s early houses were built on speculation by the Minton Company for immediate purchase while others were built according to the Minton company's plan books from which buyers could select a plan and style for customized construction.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
No major exterior alterations are noted.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The Palmita Park houses built in the 1920s exhibit the range of cottage and period revival styles popular in that decade; however, the Great Depression interrupted the full build-out of the subdivision. Houses from the late 1930s and the post-World War II building boom in the Minimal Traditional style appear to have filled out the remaining blocks. The house at 484 Loreto Street was built by Minton Lumber Company treasurer and Board of Directors member Alfred Olsen, who owned and occupied the property with his wife Emily. The Olsen family retained ownership through the 1980s.
484 Loreto Street appears eligibile for the National Register, California Register and Mountain View Register under Criterion C/3/c as a notable and first-in-the-development example of Mission Revival architecture built within the stylistically diverse Palmita Park subdivision during the 1920s. The property appears minimally altered and retains sufficient integrity for listing in the National Register and California Register. The period of significance is 1928, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall siting and scale, including historic setback
Complex plan and massing
Stucco cladding
Mission Revival parapets and pedimented gables
Cornice with dentils
Entry portico with arched openings
Bay window with projecting eave
Attached planting bed
12-over-one double-hung wood sash windows with ogee lugs Detached garage with shaped parapet and wing walls, and paired side-hinge doors.
Continuation of B12. References:
"Boom makes rapid progress in Palmita Park," Mountain View Register, May 1, 1925.
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002.
Kayne, Melanie and Kyle Hartzell. "Palmita Park: Clippings that reveal the rich history of home." Self-published, 2024.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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P1. Other Identifier: 209 MARIPOSA AV
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 201 MARIPOSA AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1107 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15410069 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood - Panel Window Style: French Door Window, Casement, Double-Hung, Dormer Window Material: Wood Porch: Pergola Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Wood pergola with thick concrete columns spans primary (northwest) facade of 201 Mariposa Avenue. A second single-family residence (209 Mariposa Avenue) with a detached garage occupies the south portion of the parcel. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 1, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1920; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
MILLER KEITH A AND MCELHANEY CHRISTINE
WEI-, 209 MARIPOSA AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 201 MARIPOSA AV
B1. Historic Name: Pierre Klein House
B2. Common Name: 201 Mariposa Avenue
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: 201 Mariposa Avenue was built in 1920 by Pierre Klein. The subject building is documented by 1921 Sanborn map as a wood-frame, one-story dwelling with a U-shaped plan, with the open part of the U facing southeast.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: None b. Builder: Pierre Klein
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1920-1922 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
201 Mariposa Avenue is a Craftsman style single-family residence located in the Shoreline West neighborhood, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The residence was built in 1920 by Pierre Klein, who was a native of Alsace, France, and a renowned winemaker in San Francisco and on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Klein built the house for his daughter to occupy. Klein owned 160 acres of land on Montebello Ridge, where he grew wine and other crops.
He was known as an early innovator of the California wine industry. Despite his status as an important figure to the local and regional history of winemaking, the subject property does not appear to be associated directly with this context. Research did not provide evidence that Klein would be considered a "builder of merit" with any other notable design contributions to local, state, or regional history.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner after 2005. *B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
An aerial photograph from 1960 shows that the U-shaped footprint had been infilled at the rear facade to create a rectilinear plan. Based on Sanborn maps and aerial photographs, the second residence (209 Mariposa Avenue) on the property was built to the south of 201 Mariposa Avenue, sometime after 1960. An undated (but likely early) photograph shows the original primary entry to the subject building had paired wood French doors with multi-lite glazing, matching the two on either side of the facade that are still present. The front door was likely replaced during the 1970s, based on later photographs.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property is a Craftsman bungalow, primarily notable for its concrete and wood pergola features. The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is a unique local example of a Craftsman residence from the Shoreline West neighborhood that is eligible for local listing. Despite the infill of the rear portion of the U-shaped plan and alterations of the primary door, the property retains overall integrity and is eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion c (Design). The second residence addressed 209 Mariposa Avenue is not an eligible historic resource.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Wood pergola with round concrete columns
Side-gabled roof with exposed rafter tails
Battered shed dormer with divided-lite wood sash windows Multi-lite French doors arranged symmetrically on the primary facade Wood sash windows with divided lites
Stucco cladding.
Continuation of B12. References:
Klein Home, 1977. January 1977. Photograph. Mountain View Public Library.
Klein Home, Mariposa Ave. at Villa. Photograph. No date. Mountain View Public Library.
Sanborn Map Company. “Insurance Maps of Mountain View, California.” Sanborn Map Company, 1921, 1956. Fire Insurance Maps Online.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1960. Accessed online June 2024, https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 250 MARIPOSA AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1161 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15410009 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: American Foursquare Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Partially Glazed Window Style: Dormer, Double-Hung Window Material: Wood Porch: None Garage: Not Visible
Other Architectural/Site Features: Four hipped dormers are located at each facade, breaking the main hipped roof eave. The rear of the parcel appears to have a detached carport and detached multi-family apartment building, which are not very visible from the public right-ofway. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 1, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1900-1920; Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
*P7. Owner and Address:
KONG ROY K AND YI-LIN C, P O BOX 2292,
DUBLIN CA 94568
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 250 MARIPOSA AV
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: American Foursquare
*B6. Construction History: The subject property was likely constructed between 1900 and 1920 as a single-family residence. The earliest available documentation of the subject building is the 1921 Sanborn map, which shows the footprint of a large wood-frame residential building and several rear ancillary buildings.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: ca.1900-1920 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Craftsman Foursquare style single-family residence and later multi-family apartment building, located in the Shoreline West neighborhood of Mountain View; the property is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. Research did not identify the date of construction nor the original owner of the building.
During the 1930s, the building was occupied by Harry G. and Lucile Simshauser. Harry Simshauser worked for the Pacific Press Publishing Association from 1915-1966, serving in various roles including as the factory superintendent for 50 years. The Simshausers only occupied the subject property for several years during the late 1930s.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
The ancillary buildings at the rear of the property were replaced by a larger multi-family residential building by 1962. Apart from these changes, the property appears largely unaltered and no other major alterations to windows or materials were noted.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The residence was part of the larger pattern of residential development in surrounding blocks spurred by the need to house employees of the Pacific Press Association, whose printing facility was located nearby at 1340 Villa Street. The neighborhood now referred to as "Shoreline West" grew as a residential area at what was then the west edge of Mountain View following the 1904 relocation of the Seventh-day Adventist publisher, the Pacific Press publishing company from Oakland, where it was established in 1874. Some 100 Seventh-day Adventist families moved to the area with the business, building their homes in the blocks along Mariposa Street, Pettis Avenue, Palo Alto Avenue, and Mountain View Avenue. The Pacific Press Association established an industrial enterprise in a town which previously had a population of around 600 and whose economy was based in agriculture. In subsequent decades, members of the Seventh-day Adventist community also built local institutions such as the Mountain View Academy high school, established in 1922, and became active in local politics. By the start of World War II, the neighborhood consisted of dense residential blocks interspersed with patches of orchards remaining from its previous agricultural use. The publishing plant remained in operation in Mountain View until 1984, when operations relocated to Idaho and the site was redeveloped.
Overall form and massing of the original single-family residenceHipped roof with four hipped dormers Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails
Horizontal beveled wood siding
Fenestration pattern and original wood double-hung and fixed, divided-lite windows.
Continuation of B12. References:
Barbara E. Hand. “New Manager Elected for Pacific Press.” Canadian Union Messenger 35, no. 7 (n.d.): 122.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Sanborn Map Company. “Insurance Maps of Mountain View, California.” Sanborn Map Company, 1921. Fire Insurance Maps Online.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 496 MARIPOSA AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1704 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15423011 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Casement, Fixed, Double-Hung Window Material: Wood Porch: Engaged, Partial Width Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails and knee braces; wood lattice vent in gable end; three-overone double-hung wood windows with ogee lugs at sides; fixed, casement, and transom windows at front; partially engaged porch with side gable roof and square columns.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1915; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
DAVIS JONATHAN G TRUSTEE & ET AL, 496
MARIPOSA AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 496 MARIPOSA AV
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: 496 Mariposa Avenue was built in 1915.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1915 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
496 Mariposa Avenue is a Craftsman-style single-family residence located in the Shoreline West neighborhood, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 496 Mariposa Avenue was built as part of the larger pattern of residential development in surrounding blocks spurred by the need to house employees of the Pacific Press Association, whose printing facility was located less than a half mile to the northeast of the property. The neighborhood now referred to as "Shoreline West" grew as a residential area at what was then the west edge of Mountain View following the ca. 1904 establishment of the Seventh Day Adventist publisher, the Pacific Press publishing company. The publishing company's plant was located on Villa Street west of what is now South Shoreline Boulevard, having moved to Mountain View from its previous location in Oakland. where it was established in 1874. Seventh-Day Adventist families who moved to the area with the business built their homes in the blocks along Mariposa Street, Pettis Avenue, Palo Alto Avenue, and Mountain View Avenue. According to historian Nick Perry, about 100 Seventh-Day Adventist families moved to Mountain View along with the Pacific Press Association, establishing an industrial enterprise in a town that previously had a population of around 600 and whose economy was based on agriculture. In subsequent decades, members of the Seventh Day Adventist community established to the southwest of the Pacific Press Association built local institutions such as the Mountain View Academy high school, established in 1922, and became active in local politics. By the start of World War II, the neighborhood consisted of dense residential blocks interspersed with patches of orchards remaining from its previous agricultural use. The publishing plant remained in operation in Mountain View until 1984.
The original owner or occupants were not identified through the course of research; however, from ca.1930s-1950s the residence was occupied by Herbert G. and Rose Childs. Herbert Childs was the treasurer and secretary of the Pacific Press Publishing Association and was active in local community and civic organizations including the Kiwanis Club. Rose Childs was a homemaker.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
A small detached garage shown on the 1921 Sanborn map appears to have been relocated and reoriented, or replaced, sometime after 1943.
Sometime after 1956, the south side porch facing Mercy was enclosed with glazing and a skylight, and an addition was added to the northern facade. No further exterior alterations were noted from visual analysis.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While one of the earliest owners/occupants was Herbert Childs, an employee of the Pacific Press Association and local civic leader, Childs' local contributions do not appear to rise to the level of significance necessary for listing in any register. 496 Mariposa Avenue is not associated with any other persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, 496 Mariposa Avenue is currently listed in the Mountain View Register, and retains eligibility under Criterion c (Architecture) as a good local example of a Craftsman bungalow built during a period of increased housing development for local employees of the Pacific Press Association. Apart from a side addition and enclosure of the side porch facing Mercy, the property retains sufficient overall historic integrity for listing in the Mountain View Register. The period of significance is 1915, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Cross-gabled roof with overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, and knee-brace brackets Partial-width porch with square columns and brick base
Wood lattice vents in gable end
Fenestration pattern and hung and fixed wood windows with divided lites Groupings of three or more windows
Wood shingle siding
Brick chimney.
Continuation of B12. References:
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002.
Mountain View city directories. Accessed online September 2024, Ancestry.com. “New School Board Member Appointed.” Daily Palo Alto Times, 1929, 8.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
United States Federal Census (1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950). Accessed online October 2024, Ancestry.com.
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________ PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________ NRHP Status Code 3CS
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________ Review Code________ Reviewer________________________ Date_______________
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad Mountain View, CA Date 2022
*c. Address 355-365 E Middlefield Road City Palo Alto Zip 94043 d. UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources) Zone mE/ mN *e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 160-52-013 *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) 355-365 E. Middlefield Road is located in Mountain View, California, situated on the south side of Middlefield Road, between North Whisman Road to the west and Ellis Street to the east. The one-story, stucco-clad concrete building sits on a concrete foundation, has a rectangular footprint, and a flat metal roof. The building has two separate entrances that share a central interior wall which delineates the unit addressed 355 from the unit addressed 365. The exterior is clad with smooth stucco on all façades, with a darker grey on the primary façade’s projecting north and south corners. Fenestration is generally uniform across the building, with fixed metal two-by-two storefront windows on the north, west, and east façades. The building appears to be in good condition.
The north (primary) façade faces E. Middlefield Road. In the center of the façade are two fully glazed metal storefront doors with rectangular sidelites and transoms that delineate each unit with address numbers (Figure 2). Remnants of a sign above 355 E.
Middlefield Road are visible in plaster above the door; 365 E. Middlefield Road also has similar evidence of a former sign above its door. The four outermost bays each contain two fixed metal storefront windows, making the primary façade symmetrical. (Figure 3).
(Refer to Continuation sheet, page 2)
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP8. Industrial Building
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other P5b. Photo: (view and date)
Primary (north) façade, facing north.
June 7, 2022.
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both
1964. Mountain View City Directory
*P7. Owner and Address:
Renault & Handley
625 Ellis Street, Suite 101
Mountain View, CA 94043
*P8. Recorded by:
Sarah Kefalas and Stacy Kozakavich
Page & Turnbull, Inc.
170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
June 7, 2022
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive level, for individual eligibility to the California Register of Historical Resources and Mountain View Register of Historic Resources.
*P11. Report Citation: None
*Attachments: None Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
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*P3a. Description (Continued)
Figure 1: Aerial view of 355-365 E. Middlefield Road. Subject parcel is outlined in red.
Google Maps, 2022. Edited by Page & Turnbull.
Figure 2: North (primary) façade, 355 E. Middlefield to the north.
Figure 3: North (primary) facade, 365 E. Middlefield to the south.
The east façade overlooks a parking lot that spans the width of the building, and a driveway accessing the rear of the building (Figure 4). At the south end of the façade is a metal door with two glass panes (Figure 6). The north and south halves of the façade are broken up by a green power transformer and other electrical equipment. Three fixed metal two-by-two storefront windows run along the north half of the façade. The protruding corner from the primary façade continues for a few feet onto the east façade. A window and a split window-door with the street number above it are set in the protruding feature (Figure 5). 731
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Figure 4: Oblique view of east façade.
Figure 5: Oblique view of north half of the east façade. Figure 6: Oblique view of south half of the east façade.
The south façade faces a parking lot reached from the driveways on the east and west side of the building. Glazed metal double doors with a transom window above are located on the southwest corner of the façade (Figure 7). A section of the façade projects out, creating a rectangular addition to the exterior of the building. A glazed metal storefront door is on the east side of the extension, opening east. Facing south on the extension are metal double doors. The southeast corner has a small courtyard that is walled off by hedges and a wood fence (Figure 8). Within the fence is a larger three-by-three storefront window. One large tree sits at the southeast corner of the façade.
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Figure 9: Parking lot south of building.
The west façade is adjacent to a driveway accessing the rear parking lot. The protruding corner from the primary façade continues for a few feet onto the east façade. A split window-door is on the north corner of the façade as well as a storefront window to the south (Figure 11). A metal roll down door for the loading bay is in the center of the west façade. A fixed storefront window and another split window-door complete this façade (Figure 10).
Figure 10: Oblique view of west façade looking south. Figure 11: Close up view of north end west façade.
The neighborhood immediately surrounding 355-365 E. Middlefield Road is characterized by industrial office properties. These properties have similar setbacks from the road and adjacent parking lots. The buildings to the east and west of 355-365 E.
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Figure 12: 401 E. Middlefield Road. Beside 355-365 E. Middlefield Road. Google Maps.
Figure 13: 345 E. Middlefield Road. Beside 355-365 E.
Middlefield Road. Google Maps.
Figure 14: 335 E. Middlefield Road. Beside 345 E. Middlefield Road. Google Maps.
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*Resource Name or # 355-365 E Middlefield Road, Mountain View, CA B1. Historic name: Intel Corporation Headquarters
B2. Common name: 355-365 E Middlefield Road
B3. Original Use: Chemical Company laboratory
B4. Present use: Vacant
*B5. Architectural Style: Vernacular Commercial-Office/Industrial *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations) The commercial and industrial building 355-365 E. Middlefield Road was constructed in 1964. Documentation of the original owner and any design professionals responsible for the building’s construction was not found in the sources consulted. 1 The parcel is
described as follows in a 1965 lease document between early tenant Union Carbide and property owners Raymond and Milla Handley: “Lot 4, as shown on the Map of Tract No. 2724, Ellis-Middlefield Industrial Park, which Map was filed for record in the office of the Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, on June 16, 1960 in Book 121 of Maps, Pages 40,41,62,43 and 44.”
2 Many alteration permits on file at the City of Mountain View were related to early tenant, Union Carbide and Intel’s, uses of the building, which produced toxic waste products. The occupants will be discussed more in depth in the significance section (Refer to continuation sheet, page 7)
*B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: N/A Original Location: _______N/A___________________ *B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme Advancement of Computing Technology Area California and United States Period of Significance 1968-1971 Property Type Commercial-Office/Industrial Applicable Criteria 1 (Events) Historic Context:
Mountain View History
In 1846, upon the culmination of the Mexican-American war, California came under control of the United States. Possession of California territory was further spurred by the discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. By 1850, California's population was large enough that the territory could apply for statehood. Two roads linked San Jose and San Francisco: the Old Road, or San Francisco Road (now Highway 101), and El Camino Real, or the King's Highway. In 1852, a stagecoach stop was established on El Camino Real southeast of Stevens Creek, which gave rise to a small settlement. The settlement became known as Mountain View, a name bestowed by its first postmaster for the unobstructed view of both the Santa Cruz and Diablo Mountain Ranges.
Train service between San Francisco and San Jose began in 1864, rendering obsolete the stagecoach stop around which the original town grew, causing the center of the town to shift northward. Crisanto Castro, whose family owned the Mexican land grant title to most of present-day Mountain View, subsequently plotted streets and established a train station for “New Mountain View.” Castro Street, running generally north-south, became the focal point of Mountain View’s downtown. (Refer to continuation sheet, page 9)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: N/A
*B12. References: Refer to footnotes
B13. Remarks: N/A
*B14. Evaluator: Sarah Kefalas, Page & Turnbull, Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: July 21, 2022
1Sources and archives that were searched were Mountain View City Directories, Santa Clara Assessor records, building permit applications, newspaper articles, and public records available through Ancestry.com. 2 Valley Title Company, Lease, Santa Clara County Assessor Office, December 1, 1965. (This space reserved for official comments.)
Source: Santa Clara County SCCMap, 2022. Subject Parcel shown outlined in blue.
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*B6. Construction History (continued):
In 1965, a permit was filed to install a monitoring well. Intel also discovered that the sewer pipes from the building to the street were eroded by the acids Union Carbide drained from the building. 3 In 1981, Chemicals were discovered to be leaking into the soil, including trichloroethylene, xylene, and 1,2 dichloroethylene.4 The director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition at the time, Ted Smith, said the site, “has become one of the most problematic toxic plumes in the region.” 5 A water treatment facility was installed
in 1998 at the property. That same year, there were seismic upgrades to the roof and the foundation. The upper part of the façade previously had decorative paneling, which was original to the building and still seen on it in 1984 (Figure 15). A date of removal of the when decorative paneling is unconfirmed; however, a permit from 1998 for exterior modifications suggests removal may have occurred at that time. In 2010, solar panels were added to the building. In 2012, a metal roll-up door was added to 355 E.
Middlefield Road.
Figure 15: Exterior image of 355-365 E. Middlefield Road. September 7, 1984. The Peninsula Times Tribune, Palo Alto, CA.
The following tables list documented construction and alterations undertaken at the subject property based on the permits on file at Mountain View Development Services.
Table 1. Permits on file for 355 E. Middlefield Road
Table 2. Permits on file for 365 E. Middlefield Road
3 Leslie Berlin, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, 170. 4 Jan Mazurek, Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry (MIT Press, 2003), 55. 5 Jan Mazurek, Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor.
Permit # Date Owner Architect/Contractor Description
2012-
3405 12/28/2012 Renault & Handley Testing Engineers Inspection of epoxied dowels and concrete placement Not
provided 12/11/2012 Blue River (tenant) CAS Architects Exterior roll-up door installed Permit # Date Owner Architect/Contractor Description
811 1965 Union Carbide
(tenant) Not provided Install monitoring well, carbon treatment for ground water pollution treatment Not
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*B10. Significance (continued):
Historic Context (continued)
The local economy of Mountain View was initially sustained by an agricultural landscape centered on grain and hay. However, the late nineteenth century saw Santa Clara County leading a transformation towards specialized crops. Prunes became Mountain View’s leading crop, followed by apricots, peaches, pears, cherries, nuts, and seeds.6 Beginning in the 1880s, real estate developers, city boosters, business and political leaders, and civic-minded residents advocated for city improvements to attract further settlement and development. Improvements focused on business and residential developments, road improvements, sewer systems, and educational and cultural institutions. By 1887, Mountain View was a booming city.7 The first third of the twentieth century saw Mountain View grow and prosper. The city was incorporated on November 7, 1902, with a population of 610. Large groups of Japanese, Filipino, Spanish, Eastern European, Italian, Portuguese, and Mexican immigrants came to the area for agricultural work and rapidly expanded the city’s population. Within Santa Clara County, “the business of fruit production, the combination of growing, packing and canning, continued to be the focus of Santa Clara County agriculture in the early twentieth century. Fruit production peaked in the 1920s. With the increased ratio of crop value to land unit, large farms that had evolved in the nineteenth century out of the ranchos became unnecessary. The increased land prices, cultivation costs, and growing population of ready buyers led to the subdivision of large farmlands into highly specialized “fruit ranches” that were 3 to 50 acres in size,” as described in the County of Santa Clara Historic Context Statement. 8 With the
growth of Mountain View came more substantial architecture; commercial buildings, a city hall, churches, and schools largely followed the Mission style. By 1914, the town had gown to a population of 2,000.
The Depression severely affected Mountain View’s fruit industry. As demand for fresh and canned fruit declined, prices plummeted.
Farmers and farm workers struggled financially. The influx of migrant farm workers from the Dust Bowl meant that by 1934, there were 142 laborers for every 100 agricultural jobs in the state. Wages plummeted below subsistence levels and living conditions grew increasingly dire. These challenging conditions led to the rise of organized labor unions.9In 1931, President Hoover established the Naval Air Station Sunnyvale (NAS Sunnyvale) to house the dirigible, USS Macon. NAS Sunnyvale was formally commissioned on April 12, 1933 and was rechristened NAS Moffett Field in 1940.10 The air station brought economic viability to the Mountain View area during the Great Depression, providing jobs for many local residents, and marked a shift away from the agricultural emphasis of the area.11
During the postwar period, due to the introduction of a new economy, Mountain View and the Santa Clara Valley experienced phenomenal change. During the 1950s, the population of Mountain View grew from 6,500 to 31,000, or by 500 percent. Santa Clara County’s population growth rate slowed after 1960, but it remained the fastest growing county in the state until 1970.12 It was during the postwar period that the economic landscape of the Santa Clara Valley transformed from an agricultural-based to a technology-based economy, with Mountain View playing a significant role in the revolution. Before 1964, the land 355-365 E.
Middlefield Road was on was used for agricultural purposes (Figure 16). The building is visible on an aerial photo dating from 1965 6 Ignoffo, Milestones, 60; A Region of Health and Prosperity: Mountain View, (Mountain View: Board of Trade, 1903), 11-12. 7 Ibid., 63.
8 Archives & Architecture, LLC, County of Santa Clara Historic Context Statement, (County of Santa Clara Department of Planning and Development, Revised February 2012), 43.
9 Ignoffo, Milestones, 115-116; Kevin Starr, Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 61-83, 223-245.
10 Ignoffo, Milestones, 108-111.
11 Mildred Hoover, Historic Spots in California, (Stanford University Press, 2002) 117. 12 Page Mosier, "A Brief History of Population Growth in the Greater San Francisco Bay Region," in Geology & Natural History of the San Francisco Bay Area: A Field-Trip Guidebook, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2188, ed. Philip W. Stoffer and Leslie C. Gordon, (U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2001), 181-186.
Permit # Date Owner Architect/Contractor Description
92001364 8/19/1992 Kuehne & Ross SC Valley Roofing & Repair Roof assessment 98001024 6/22/1998 Y. A. Tittle Aquatierra Install water treatment facility 98001510 8/26/1998 Renault & Handley Haley Engineering Corp. Fire sprinkler heads installed 98001717 8/28/98 Renault & Handley GL Ross Inc. Exterior modifications 98-1455 1998 Renault & Handley GL Ross Inc. Update to the concrete foundation, compression test
98-1903 1998 Renault & Handley GL Ross Inc. Seismic upgrade to foundation and roof 2010-
2814
11/19/201
0 Sky Watch Energy
(tenant)
Richard Pedley Architects Solar panels installation
2011-
0132
02/17/201
1 Cogenra Energy
(tenant)
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(Figure 17). The rapid development of the computer and electronics industries produced job opportunities in research, manufacturing, sales, and services. In the 1970s the area was christened “Silicon Valley.” 13 Figure 16: Aerial photograph from April 1, 1948. Red line shows approximate future location of subject parcel.
Flight CDF_5_2, Frame 2-110. Source: FrameFinder UC Santa Barbara. Edited by Page & Turnbull.
Figure 17: Aerial photograph from May 1, 1965. Red line shows the subject parcel. Flight CAS _65_130, Frame 5- 112.
Source: FrameFinder UC Santa Barbara. Edited by Page & Turnbull. 13 Annalice Saxenian, "The Origins and Business Culture of Silicon Valley," in Major Problems in California History, cd. Sucheng Chan and Spencer Olin (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1997), 401-405; James Rawls and Walton Bean, California: An Interpretive History, (New York: McGraw Hill, 2003), 493-497.
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Development of ‘Silicon Valley’
During the decades following World War II, the Santa Clara Valley, which had once been described as the “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” and had been based primarily in agricultural economies, emerged as a regional hub for development the high-technology industry. The region has since become known as “Silicon Valley,” in association with the development of high-technology (hightech, hereafter) during the mid-twentieth century.14 Changes that led to the transformation of the regional economy began as early as the 1890s, when Stanford University was established and nearby communities soon became associated with technological research and development, although many communities remained primarily reliant on agriculture in the years leading up to World War II.15 The Santa Clara Valley also offered strategic advantages as recognized by the United States Military, who sought to establish additional West Coast installations, among them Moffett Field in nearby Sunnyvale, originally developed in the early 1930s and which expanded in the 1950s with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Ames Research Center. Defense and a growing number of research and development companies supported the formation of the high-tech industry.
World War II brought an increased military presence and spurred continued population growth that began earlier in the twentieth century, which was catalyzed by the growing use of the automobile, extension of highways, and the creation of housing types such as the suburban bungalow and ranch house.16 The City of Santa Clara and neighboring communities in Santa Clara County grew to many times their pre-war population, transforming from rural, agricultural centers to suburban communities within a few decades.
As described by the National Park Service’s economic history of Santa Clara County:
During the 1940s, core cities grew by an average of 14 percent while the suburbs grew by 36 percent. Returning World War II veterans, getting married and settling down produced a baby boom unprecedented in American history. Already by 1960 more metropolitan residents lived in the suburbs than in the central city, and by 1990 the majority of all Americans lived in suburban areas. With the shift from an agricultural county to a large suburban one, Santa Clara County was following national trends. Its next move, with the creation of Silicon Valley, would lead national trends in creating the computer revolution, which would sweep the nation and the world.17
Key early developments in the history of Silicon Valley include the establishment of Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Palo Alto in 1939, William Shockley’s establishment of the company Shockley Transistor, and the establishment of Fairchild Semiconductor, a Mountain View-based company that was established in 1957 as a spin-off from Shockley Transistor. An influx of high-tech companies arrived in Santa Clara County between the late 1940s and 1950s, with industrial parks and hubs containing multiple corporate office and manufacturing facilities established in communities during the 1950s and 1960s. Influential developments such as Stanford Industrial Park (known as Stanford Research Park since 1984) created opportunities for the development of clusters of corporate headquarters and campuses for emergent companies such as Intel and Varian Associates, among others.
Regarding these developments and later growth in the 1970s, the National Park Service describes:
In 1947, William Shockley, leading a Bell Labs team, invented the transistor. Shockley returned home to his native Palo Alto and created Shockley Transistor. Differences arose within the company over the choice between the use of two semiconducting materials–silicon and germanium. Shockley preferred germanium, but his eight engineers believed silicon to be the superior semiconducting material. They left Shockley in 1957, forming Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View. Fairchild was the first company to manufacture exclusively in silicon, and to mass manufacture a micro-sized device able to integrate large numbers of electrical “on-off” switching functions, which were stored in simple memory cells, all etched onto a silicon chip.
[…] Also in 1971, Intel created the first microprocessor, the 4004-chip. The next step in the Silicon Valley revolution occurred in March 1975, when the Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park was created by students with an interest in technology and a desire to experiment with building home computers. Steve Wozniak, a founding member, built a home computer from a cheap microprocessor, and showed it to his fellow club members, who included his friend Steve Jobs. Together, in Steve Job’s garage in Cupertino, Wozniak and Jobs formed Apple Computer. By 1976 the first Personal Computer – Apple I, was offered from Apple Computer.18
14 “Silicon Valley” was coined by Journalist Don C. Hoefler to describe the region in a series of articles he wrote for Electronic News, a weekly industrial tabloid, in 1971.
15 “A Brief History of Santa Clara,” City of Santa Clara. 16 “Economic History,” National Park Service.
17 “Economic History,” National Park Service.
18 “Economic History,” National Park Service.
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As evidenced by the establishment of Fairchild Semiconductor, the growth of the high-tech industry was often accomplished through the creation of “spin-off” firms and start-ups that broke away from but set up shop in the same region as earlier established parent firms. The success and continued establishment of new companies led to an increase in population in Santa Clara County of over one million people between 1950 and 1975. Over the course of four decades between 1940 and 1980, total employment in the county grew from roughly 60,000 to over 600,000.19
Ownership and Occupancy Summary
At the time of construction of the building at 355-365 E. Middlefield Road, the property was owned by Raymond G. Handley and his wife Milla L. Handley. The property has been owned by the Handley family, and/or their various corporate entities from 1964 until present.
Table 3 outlines the occupancy history of 355 E. Middlefield Road. No listings for occupants prior to 1992 were found for the address.
Table 3. Documented Occupants at 355 E. Middlefield Road Table 4 outlines the occupancy history of 365 E. Middlefield Road. This information was compiled from Mountain View City Directories, Santa Clara Assessor records, building permit applications, newspaper articles, and public records available through Ancestry.com.
Table 4. Documented Occupants at 365 E. Middlefield Road Intel History
Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 by two former Shockley Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor engineers, Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore. Noyce and Moore were among the founders of Fairchild Semiconductors in 1957 after leaving Shockley.20 The two left Fairchild Semiconductor and incorporated a new company as NM Electronics on July 18, 1968.21 Both engineers had already made names for themselves within the technology business; Bob Noyce was a co-inventor of the integrated circuit and Gordon Moore developed Moore’s Law, an influential principle regarding the development of microchip components. 22 Moore’s Law
is “the principle of exponential growth, both observed and projected, in density of semiconductors and digital processors, describing the doubling of the number of components in an integrated circuit approximately every two years.” 23 19 Saxenian, 16.
20 “Intel’s Founding,” Intel, Accessed June 16, 2022, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/virtual-vault/articles/intels-founding.html. 21 Intel 35 Year Anniversary, Intel Corporation, 2003.
22 “Intel’s Founding,” Intel.
23 https://www.dictionary.com/browse/moore-s-law
Year of
Occupancy
Occupants Business Type
1964- 1992 No occupant listed
1992-2003 Energy Sales Energy sales
Year of
Occupancy
Occupants Business Type
1965 Union Carbide Chemical company
1968-1970 Intel Semiconductor company
1971-1992 No occupants listed
1992 Kuehne & Ross Construction
1993 No occupants listed
1994-1997 Advantage Office System,
Western Com service
Office furniture supply company
1998-1999 No occupants listed
2002 Open TV Digital media company
2003 No occupants listed
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In founding their new company, Noyce and Moore worked with venture capitalist Arthur Rock, who had also backed Fairchild at its beginning, to raise the $2.5 million in startup funds, as well as contributing some of their own resources.24 As “Intel” was already the name of a hotel chain in the midwestern United States, Moore and Noyce purchased the right to use the name for $15,000, and thus NM Electronics became Intel, short for Integrated Electronics. On August 1, 1968, Intel moved into 365 E. Middlefield Road, which they leased after Union Carbide Corporation left the building. With Noyce and Moore working out of the conference room, this building served as Intel’s first headquarters (Error! Reference source not found.).25 Bob Noyce was the first Chief Executive Officer, Gordon Moore was the Executive Vice President, and Arthur Rock served as Chairman of Intel. .
Figure 18: Intel staff outside of 365 E. Middlefield Road in 1968. Courtesy of the Computer History Museum.
Figure 19: Newspaper clipping announcing the founding
of Intel. San Jose Mercury News, August 6, 1968.
Stan Mazor, who worked for Fairchild and was recruited to Intel in 1969, described the working conditions at the first headquarters in an interview with the Computer History Museum in 2007: “We were located at 365 Middlefield. It was an extremely small building, and my office had three desks in it.”
26 The 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility was a tight working space with furnishings left behind by the previous tenants, Union Carbide. Bob Noyce estimated that a meeting could be called by yelling to a colleague who would be less than 20 steps away from the crammed offices.27 They used a long table to set up their 24 Molella, Arthur P. and Anna Karvellas, Places of Invention, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press: 2015, 23. 25 Intel 35 Year Anniversary, Intel Corporation, 2003.
26 “Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 4004 Microprocessor,” Stan Mazor interviewed by Dave House, Computer History Museum, April 25, 2007.
27 Leslie Berlin, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 169. 741
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“communication center,” and the “cafeteria” consisted of vending machine food. Union Carbide had left the fabrication area in the rear in disarray; pipes sticking out of the ceiling, wires along the walls, and holes in the floor. Gene Flath, a product engineer, was tasked with acquiring custom equipment and materials for Intel’s new “fab” area. Noyce and Moore changed the way developing and manufacturing the types of chips and devices Intel made had been done up until that point. Rather than operating two separate facilities, they “co-located” development and manufacturing to ensure that they did not waste time and effort in developing devices that could not practically be built.
Figure 20: QA Inspection workers, 1969. Intel Museum
Silicon Valley History Online Collection. Online Archive of California.
Figure 21: Monitoring furnace banks, 1969. Intel Museum Silicon Valley History Online Collection. Online Archive of California.
Intel’s first product was the 3101 Schottky bipolar random-access memory (RAM), produced beginning in April 1969. RAM serves as the main memory in a computer, storing working data and code. A bipolar transistor allows the device to be able to switch or amplify currents. The 3101 RAM was an important development because of its speed and large memory capacity. The same year, Intel also developed the world’s first commercial chip to use a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS), the 1101 static RAM. 28 A static
RAM does not have to be refreshed as often as other RAM, so it has a higher performance rate and lower power usage. This chip relied on silicon gates instead of metal, changing semiconductor technology across the industry. Intel described the advance in an article published in 2018 to reflect on their first products at their 50th anniversary:
The process technology developed for the 1101 became the industry standard and a key revenue source for Intel. And while Intel’s first product, the 3101, had already established the company’s ability to improve on established technologies and manufacturing processes, the 1101 established the company’s ability to develop industry-changing new ones.29
Semiconductor memory chips had been developed prior to Intel’s production, but Intel was the first company to mass produced the devices on a commercial level. In 1970, the 1103 DRAM was announced for commercial use, changing industry standards for computer memory as the world’s first dynamic random-access memory chip. 30 All computers today have RAM, and DRAM is popular in modern computers. In 1969, Frederico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor of Intel began developing a custom set of chips for calculator company, Busicom, including the 4001 program memory chip, the 4002 data memory chip, the 4003 peripheral interface chip, and the 4004 CPU chip, which together comprised the MCS-4 chip set. 31 The chip designs were completed in 1970, and the working chips were given to Busicom in March 1971. Intel began selling the chips in November of 1971. The Intel 4004 was the world’s first microprocessor, serving as a complete CPU on a single chip.32 Intel developed and produced the 3101, 1101, 1103, and 4000 series chips during their time headquartered at the subject property at 365 E. Middlefield Road. 28 “Intel’s Founding,” Intel, Accessed June 16, 2022, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/virtual-vault/articles/intels-founding.html. 29 “Intel at 50: Intel’s 1101,” Intel Newsroom, accessed June 22, 2022, https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-50-intels-1101/. 30 Intel 35 Year Anniversary, Intel Corporation, 2003.
31 Stephen Cass, “Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 4004 Microprocessor,” July 2, 2018, Accessed July 5, 2022, https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of-fameintel-4004-microprocessor. 32Stephen Cass, “Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 4004 Microprocessor.” 742
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In 1971, Intel required more space than available at its facility at 365 E. Middlefield Road and moved to a larger property in Santa Clara. That year, Intel went public and celebrated its first $1 million month.33 The following year, Intel opened its first international factory to help produce their growing variety of computer chips and processors. By its 10-year anniversary in 1978, Intel had 10,000 employees. As of 1979, Gordon Moore served as Intel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, with Bob Noyce as the Vice Chairman, and Andy Grove as president and Chief Operating Officer. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Intel opened factories and offices in Arizona, Barbados, Oregon, Israel, and the Philippines.34 In a 2014 history of the company’s development, author Michael Malone describes the growth of Intel in the 1980s as follows:
In 1980, Intel set out to do what seemed impossible: to be the industry’s leading supplier and leading innovator at the same time. In pursuit of this wildly ambitious goal, the company took advantage of the good times to embark on a frenzy of activity. In that year alone, the company opened a Hong Kong subsidiary and a fab plant in Puerto Rico, even as it closed its original Mountain View fab. The company also installed a massive new order-processing system to deal with the exploding demand for its products.35 In 1983, the company passed $1 billion in annual revenue for the first time. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Intel grew at a steady rate and soon became a household name. In 1992, Intel was the largest semiconductor supplier in the world, according to Dataquest.36 Intel celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2003, the year it shipped its 1 billionth processor.
Suburban Corporate & Technology Developments
Suburban corporate development began in American cities in the 1940s, and became increasingly popular in the decades following World War II as large corporations, particularly those with large research and development functions, looked for space to expand their facilities. With the rise in automobile ownership and commuter transit systems, as well as the perceived ills of urban life— pollution, congestion, crime, and so on— a growing number of white collar workers were buying homes in the suburbs.
Corporations also saw advantages of the suburbs with large swaths of cheaper available land and proximity to the suburban workforce. Unlike large industrial facilities, these corporate campuses were largely dedicated to office headquarters, laboratories, and research and development activities, so-called “smokeless” industries, which were seen as compatible with the surrounding middle class residential areas. In addition to extensive parking for employees, these corporate campuses were set in designed landscapes to create a parklike or pastoral atmosphere.
In her book Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, Louise A. Mozingo, landscape architect and professor at University of California, Berkeley, has identified three typologies of suburban corporate workplaces:
• Corporate Campus – The corporate campus, which first appeared in the 1940s, was purpose-built and designed in the manner of a university campus with buildings organized around a landscaped quad and “provided facilities for a singular division of middle management: corporate research. The corporate campus initiated the shift of white-collar work into pastoral suburban settings.”37 One example is the 1956 General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and landscape architect Thomas Church. • Corporate Estate – The corporate estate, which arose in the early 1950s, “consisted of an imposing building complex arrived at by a coursing entry drive through a scenically designed landscape of 200 acres or more.”38 Like corporate campuses, corporate estates were purpose-built for a specific company. An example is the 1971 Weyerhaeuser Corporate Headquarters outside of Tacoma, Washington designed by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and landscape architect Peter Walker of Sasaki, Walker and Associates. • Office Park – The office park, developed in the 1950s, provided a “lower-cost, flexible alterative to the corporate campus and estate. The office park scheme provided lots for office buildings, each encircled by a pool of parking, a matrix of landscape edges, medians, and verges that provided suburban consistency.”39 Developers could sell, lease, or build to provide offices to a number of different companies. The subject property at 355-365 E. Middlefield Road is located in an area of 1960s suburban corporate growth which most closely fits this type of development. Another example is the 1951 Stanford Industrial Park, now known as the Stanford Research Park, in Palo Alto, which includes buildings for a variety of companies designed by different architects.
33 Intel 35 Year Anniversary, Intel Corporation, 2003.
34 Intel 35 Year Anniversary, Intel Corporation, 2003.
35Michael Malone, The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Computer, Harper Collins New York: 2014, 322.
36 Intel 35 Year Anniversary, Intel Corporation, 2003.
37 Louise A. Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011), 12. 38 Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism, 12.
39 Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism, 13.
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Numerous suburban corporate workplaces were constructed in Silicon Valley beginning in the late 1960s with increasing pervasiveness in the 1970s. An essay on the history of the corporate campus in Silicon Valley for The Urbanist, the publication of non-profit urban and regional planning policy organization SPUR, observes:
[…] these facilities were located near major research universities to capture a highly educated workforce for companies that would commercialize academic innovation, develop new technologies and conduct government and defense research. It was a winning formula, as academics and technology entrepreneurs formed formidable clusters of companies, opportunities and ideas. In various ways, research parks replicated the suburban planning and design controls pioneered in the city of Menlo Park in 1948, deliberately presenting an alternative to industrial factories, where most research and development functions had traditionally been housed. [By the 1970s] It became increasingly important for national technology firms to establish a presence in Silicon Valley.
The Peninsula was primed for its explosive growth as the global center of technological innovation — all in a postwar suburban environment that was socially homogeneous, spatially dispersed and utterly dependent on the private automobile.40
Table 5 provides examples of some of the earliest purpose-built corporate campuses, estates, and office parks developed for technology firms in Silicon Valley. Among those which have been demolished is the building Intel constructed in 1970 to accommodate their growing company.
Table 5. Early corporate development locations in Silicon Valley. Shaded entries shaded red have been demolished.
Year Built Corporate Workplace City Architect/Landscape Architect 1951 Sunset Magazine Menlo Park Cliff May / Thomas Church 1953 Varian Associates at Stanford Industrial
Park
Palo Alto Erich Mendelsohn and Michael Gallis /
Thomas Church
1954-
1970s
Hewlett-Packard at Stanford Industrial
Park
Palo Alto Clark & Stromquist /Thomas Church,
Royston, Hanamoto & Mayes
1956-58 IBM Building 25 at Cottle Road San Jose John S. Bolles / Douglas Baylis 1964 IBM Advanced Systems Development
System Los Gatos Laboratory
San Jose Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum /
Lawrence Halprin
1967 Hewlett-Packard Mountain View Division
(formerly Datamec Corporation)
Mountain
View
1968,
1975
Hewlett-Packard Santa Clara Division Santa Clara Clark, Stromquist, Potter & Ehrlich / Royston, Hanamoto, Beck & Abey
1968 Varian Associates factory at VALLCO
Business & Industrial Park
Cupertino Rockrise & Watson
c. 1968 Fairchild Semiconductors Mountain
View
Simpson, Stratta & Associates
1969 HP Cupertino Division at VALLCO
Business & Industrial Park
Cupertino Not available.
1970 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Palo Alto Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum 1970 Intel Corporation SC1 Building Santa Clara
1971 Memorex Corporation Research Facility Santa Clara Simpson, Stratta & Associates 1972 National Semiconductor Corporation (now
Texas Instruments)
Santa Clara Dennis A. Kobaza & Associates
1973 Alza Headquarters Palo Alto McCue Boone Tomsick
1974 Moffett Park Sunnyvale
1977 IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory San Jose McCue Boone Tomsick / Sasaki, Walker & Associates
1970s Digital Equipment Corporations Santa Clara Gensler & Associates 1980 Qume Corporation Santa Clara Hawley & Peterson
1983 IBM Almaden Valley Research Laboratory San Jose McCue Boone Tomsick 40 Benjamin Grant, “The Corporate Campus: A Local History,” The Urbanist 553 (September 2016), accessed online February 9, 2021, https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2016-09-21/corporate-campus-local-history. 744
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Significance Evaluation
California Register of Historical Resources
In order for a property to be considered eligible for the California Register of Historical Resources (California Register), the property must possess significance and retain integrity to convey that significance. The criteria for significance are:
Criterion 1 (Events): Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local or regional history or the cultural heritage of California or the United States. 355-365 E. Middlefield Road appears to be significant under Criterion 1 for its association with the early operation of Intel.
Constructed in 1964 during an early period of suburban corporate growth in the city, 355-365 E. Middlefield Road was built as an industrial office building first occupied by Union Carbide. Intel occupied the building from 1968-1971, during the first three years of the company’s life. During this period of occupancy of 355-365 E. Middlefield Road, Intel developed and produced commercial memory chips and microprocessors which contributed significantly to the advancement of computing technology, including groundbreaking memory chips. 355-365 E. Middlefield Road is documented in numerous publications as the first location of Intel, and was an important location in the company’s history. In addition, as the company’s subsequent building in Santa Clara, built in 1970, has been demolished, the subject property is a rare remaining physical location associated with the now-global company’s early history. The period of significance for 355-365 E. Middlefield Road is 1968-1971, corresponding to the years of occupation by Intel.
Criterion 2 (Persons): Associated with the lives of persons important to local, California or national history. 355-365 E. Middlefield Road does not appear to be individually significant under Criterion 2. Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel in 1968, and held critical roles in its evolution over the years. Frederico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor were the primary engineers who worked on some of Intel’s early projects. All of these individuals contributed to the advancements in technology for which Intel is historically significant under Criterion 1. However, the subject building was not found to be strongly associated with any of these individuals in particular; rather it was directly associated with the significant operations of the company as a whole. As such, the contribution made by these individuals is more appropriately included in the building’s significance under Criterion 1. Research did not identify other individuals associated with prior or subsequent occupations of the subject property who appear to have made significant contributions to local, State, or national history.
Criterion 3 (Architecture): Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region or method of construction or represents the work of a master or possesses high artistic values:
355-365 E. Middlefield Road does not appear to be individually significant under Criterion 3. 355-365 E. Middlefield Road is an industrial office building that was constructed in 1964 by an unknown architect and/or builder. Though an example of suburban corporate development in Santa Clara County, the building is of a simple commercial-industrial type constructed with common materials and using common methods of the mid-1960s. The building is not an example of a component of a cohesive early corporate campus or estate. It does not possess features that are highly representative of a particular architectural style. The building does not provide and exceptional or influential example of a particular style, and is not identified as the work of an influential or master-level design professional. The building does not embody the aesthetic ideal of any particular type or style to a high degree, relatively to other examples in the region, such that it would possess high artistic value.
Criterion 4 (Information Potential): Has yielded, or has the potential to yield, information important to the prehistory or history of the local area, California or the nation.
The property at 355-365 E. Middlefield Road does not appear to be individually significant under Criterion 4 as a building or property that has the potential to provide information important to the prehistory or history of the City of Mountain View, state, or nation. It does not feature construction or material types, or embody engineering practices that would, with additional study, provide important information. Evaluation of this property was limited to age-eligible resources above ground and did not involve survey or evaluation of the subject property for the purposes of archaeological information.
Mountain View Register of Historic Resources
According to City of Mountain View Municipal Code Section 36.54.65, a building, structure, site, or other improvement must meet one or more of the following criteria for designation by City Council as a historic resource to be placed on the Mountain View Register.
a) Is strongly identified with a person who, or an organization which, significantly contributed to the culture, history or development of the City of Mountain View;
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c) Embodies distinctive characteristics significant to the city in terms of a type, period, region or method of construction or representative of the work of a master or possession of high artistic value; or d) Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important to the city's prehistory or history.
These criteria closely follow those defined for eligibility for listing in the California Register, as discussed above. As Page & Turnbull finds that the property at 355-365 E. Middlefield Road is directly associated with significant events in Mountain View’s history, the property does appear to be eligible for listing as a historic resource in the Mountain View Register under Criterion B. 365 E. Middlefield Road was the location of Intel Corporation’s first headquarters, beginning in 1968. During their time at Middlefield Road, Intel made several important products which were widely influential in technological development through the following decades. Intel was an integral part of the rise of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara County and the city of Mountain View.
Integrity
To qualify for listing in any local, state, or national historic register, a property or landscape must possess significance under at least one evaluative criterion, as described earlier, and retain integrity. Integrity is defined by the California Office of Historic Preservation as “the authenticity of a historical resource’s physical identity by the survival of certain characteristics that existing during the resource’s period of significance,” or more simply defined as “the ability of a property to convey its significance.” Location: The building on the subject property remains in its original location since its construction in 1964. Thus, the property retains integrity of the location.
Setting: The subject property was historically located in a neighborhood characterized primarily by industrial office buildings constructed in the mid-20th century. Although some buildings from this period have been altered or replaced with new buildings, overall, the surrounding neighborhood retains its historic character. Thus, the property retains integrity of setting.
Design: The building on the subject property is a commercial-industrial building that was designed and built with common materials of the period, lending the overall appearance vernacular qualities. The building continues to display characteristics of its original design, such as being a one-story rectangular mass building with a symmetrical primary façade, generally uniform fenestration, projecting front corners, a flat roof, and stucco exterior. There have been minor alterations, such as the removal of original primary façade decorative panels and addition of a roll up door. Despite these alterations, the property remains able overall to convey its character as a commercial-industrial building. Thus, the property retains integrity of design.
Materials: The building on the property retains most of its historic materials that were part of the original design, such as the stucco cladding that is on all exterior facades and metal-frame windows. Thus, the property retains integrity of materials.
Workmanship: The building at 355-365 E. Middlefield Road displays elements that demonstrate the workmanship that contributed to its design, including the stucco cladding, metal-frame (storefront) windows and glazed doors. All of these elements remain intact.
Thus, the property retains integrity of workmanship.
Feeling: The subject property continues to impart the feeling of a commercial-industrial building built in 1964. Thus, the property retains integrity of feeling.
Association: Through its retention of integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, and feeling, the subject property continues to convey its significance as a commercial industrial building designed in the mid-twentieth century. Thus, the property retains integrity of association.
In sum, 355-365 E. Middlefield Road retains all seven aspects of integrity. Although there have been small alterations over time, these alterations have a minor effect on the design integrity of this building and do not result in a total loss of integrity for this building or property as a whole.
Character-Defining Features
The character- defining features of 355-365 E. Middlefield Road and its site include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Rectangular massing
• One-story height with flat roof
• Large storefront windows
• Stucco exterior
• Parking lot and driveway
• Projecting northeast and northwest corners
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Conclusion
The property at 355-365 E Middlefield Road appears to be individually eligible for listing in the California Register of Historical Resources under Criterion 1 for its association with the early development of Intel, and the company’s technological advances made while occupying the building. It appears individually eligible for listing in the Mountain View Register of Historic Resources.
The California Historical Resource Status Code (CHRSC) of 3CS has been assigned to the property, meaning “Appears eligible for CR individually through survey evaluation.”41
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PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
Review Code Reviewer Date
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1855 MIRAMONTE AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-4029 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 19329003 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage Plan Shape: Irregular Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2.5
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Bay Window, Casement Window Material: Aluminum, Wood Porch: None Garage: Carport
Other Architectural/Site Features: Subject (front) building, described above, has an approximately H-plan footprint with an additional front (west) wing and steeply pitched gable roofs. The east half of the parcel is occupied by two-story multi-family Neo-Tudor Revival style buildings constructed c. 2010 arranged around a central courtyard. A driveway extends from Miramonte Avenue, over a bridge with brick walls crossing Permenante Creek, to a circular driveway just west of the center of the property. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1927; The Peninsula Times Tribune, March 12,
1927.
*P7. Owner and Address:
MINISTRY SERVICES OF THE DAUGHTERS, 26000
ALTAMONT RD, LOS ALTOS HILLS CA 94022
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 1855 MIRAMONTE AV
B1. Historic Name: Wright Residence
B2. Common Name: Sister's House; Villa Siena Senior Living Community B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage *B6. Construction History: The subject building was originally constructed in 1927, situated at the center of the current parcel. The building was originally surrounded by apricot orchards, and featured a garden designed by Thomas Church in in 1938. By the early 1970s, a senior living facility constructed new residential buildings on the parcel to the north and east of the subject building.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? No ✓ Yes Unknown Date: 2009-
2011
Original
Location:
Center of same parcel and rotated 90 degrees
counterclockwise
*B8. Related Features: Bridge with brick walls over Permanente Creek along Miramonte Avenue; mature trees B9a. Architect: Charles McKenzie b. Builder: The Minton Company *B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1927 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property was developed as a single-family residence, designed in the Tudor Revival style, in what is now known as the Cuesta Park neighborhood, and is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally designed by San Jose architect of merit Charles McKenzie and built by the Minton Company for William and Nellie Wright in 1927. William Wright was a real estate broker in Mountain View, and one of the founders of the First National Bank of Mountain View. Research was unable to confirm how much, if any, of the orchard on the subject property was used for commercial purposes by the Wrights. The Wrights lived at the property until 1948. In the 1970s, the property was purchased by the present owners, Villa Sienna, and converted into a senior living facility with additional new facilities.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP19. Bridge
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. *B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
In a multi-year project beginning in 2009, the building was temporarily moved slightly to the southwest before being moved and rotated to its current location at the northwest corner of the parcel in 2011. The Church-designed landscape was demolished at this time, although a few individual mature trees may remain. New Neo-Tudor Revival style buildings for senior housing were constructed. Some individual windows on the original residence appear to have been replaced.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The former Wright Residence appears to be eligible for the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Historic Register under Criterion C/3/c as an excellent local example of the Tudor Revival style designed by architect of merit Charles McKenzie. The property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing under any other criteria. The period of significance is 1927, the year of construction. Despite alterations such as the relocation of the building on its original property, the replacement of some windows, and the demolition of the original orchards and gardens that surrounded the building, the property appears to retain integrity of design, materials, and workmanship, which are most essential to convey architectural significance. The building appears to retain sufficient overall historic integrity for listing in the National Register. California Register, and Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Steeply pitched cross-gable roof
Fenestration pattern and leaded glass and wood casement windows Stucco cladding
Decorative half timbering
Bay windows
Entrance recessed beneath overhanging half-timbered second story Bridge with brick walls over Permenante Creek off of Miramonte Avenue Continuation of B12. References:
"Building News," The Peninsula Times Tribune, March 12, 1927.
City of Mountain View, "1855 Miramonte Avenue input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 15, 2002.
Google Earth (2008, 2009, 2011, 2014).
University of California, Santa Barbara Library FrameFinder, historic aerials (1948, 1965). Accessed online November 2024, https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 157 MOFFETT BL City: Mountain View Zip: 94043-4720 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15844001 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Mission Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Reinforced Concrete, Adobe Number of Stories: 1 Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Spanish Clay Tile
Exterior Material: Cement plaster Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Casement, Transom Window Material: Wood
Porch: Arcade Garage: Surface Parking Lot
Other Architectural/Site Features: Arcaded porch with square columns. Clay tile roof and adobe brick cladding. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP44. Adobe building/structure *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1934; National Register of Historic Places
nomination form
*P7. Owner and Address:
CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW, 500 CASTRO ST,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 157 MOFFETT BL
B1. Historic Name: Mountain View Adobe
B2. Common Name: Mountain View Adobe
B3. Original Use: Civic/Government B4. Present Use: Civic/Government *B5. Architectural Style: Mission Revival
*B6. Construction History: The Mountain View Adobe was built in 1934. In 1935, a paper composite temporary roof was replaced with a clay tile roof. In the 1950s, the building's front porch and garden were enclosed to create additional usable space and storage areas. In 1965, the adobe wall surrounding the site was removed following the widening of the Central Expressway directly south of the property. In 1997, a pumphouse on the property was removed.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Don Reinhoel b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme:
Civic Growth and Social, Religious &
Cultural Development (1910-1944)
Area: Mountain View
Period of Significance: 1934-1952 Property Type: Civic/Government Applicable NR/CR Criteria: A/1 (Events),
C/3 (Design)
Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The Mountain View Adobe is an institutional building designed in the Mission Revival style located on Moffett Boulevard, just north of downtown, that is associated with the theme of Civic Growth and Social, Religious, and Cultural Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The Mountain View Adobe was constructed in 1934 as a New Deal-era Civil Works Administration project for the City of Mountain View and designed by City Engineer Don Reinhoel. Construction of the building was funded with $1,100 of bonds issued by Mountain View's Junior Chamber of Commerce with the purpose of building a meeting space for city employees and providing jobs during the Great Depression. The building is still owned by the City of Mountain View, but is currently used as an event space.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed in the Mountain View Register, California Register, and National Register.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
In 2001, the Mountain View Adobe underwent a rehabilitation involving the removal of non-original materials and additions. Non-original aluminum windows and metal doors were replaced with historically compatible wood casement windows and doors. New clay roof tiles were installed where needed. No other notable alterations have been made since 2001.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The Adobe Building is currently listed on the Mountain View Register, California Register, and National Register under Criteria A/1/b (Events) for its continued role as a public building central to the development of the Mountain View community in the early 20th century and as a building constructed under the Civil Works Administration; and under Criteria C/3/c (Design) as a work that embodies the distinctive characteristics of a 1930s type of adobe and concrete construction. The property continues to retain historic integrity and eligibility for listing in the Mountain View Register, California Register, and National Register. The period of significance has been identified as 1934 through 1950, based on the contribution the building made to the Mountain View community between the 1930s and 1950 and on its 1930s construction method.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Gable roof with clay barrel roof tiles
Adobe brick construction
Arcade with square columns
Timbers beams, rafters, and purlins
Cement plaster cladding
Recessed, punched window openings
Wood doors
Exterior chimney and interior fireplace mantle
Ceiling hooks.
Continuation of B12. References:
Jessica E. Kusz, Page & Turnbull. “Mountain View Adobe.” National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form.
National Park Service, October 28, 2002.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 243 MOFFETT BL City: Mountain View Zip: 94043-4723 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15844005 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Postwar Industrial Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Reinforced Concrete Number of Stories: 1 Roof Style: Monitor, Parapet Roof Material: Asphalt - Rolled Exterior Material: Concrete - Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU), Stucco Primary Door Material: Metal Window Style: Clerestory, Fixed, Pivot, Skylight Window Material: Steel Porch: None Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Roof has a central monitor with a low-pitch gable, behind a shaped parapet. Addition at the rear of the parcel, with gable sheet metal roof, walls clad in wood siding, metal siding, and concrete masonry units. Garage entrances to the building at the primary (north), west side and south facades
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP8. Industrial building
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1946; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
STANAWAY DAWN ET AL, 1200 MILLBRAE AVE,
MILLBRAE CA 94030
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 243 MOFFETT BL
B1. Historic Name: Arrow Development Building
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Industrial B4. Present Use: Auto-Related Commercial/Light Industrial *B5. Architectural Style: Postwar Industrial
*B6. Construction History: The building was originally constructed in 1946. By 1955, a gable-roof addition was built at the rear of the parcel.
By 2007, an original window at the north of the central garage door, and a pedestrian door south of the central garage door, both at the westernmost wall of the building were replaced.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Agricultural & Industrial Development (1945-1959) Area: Mountain View
Period of Significance: 1946-1960 Property Type: Industrial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: A/1 (Events) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events) Statement of Significance:
The property is a one-story light industrial building located north of downtown Mountain View on the east side of Moffett Boulevard and is associated with the theme of Agricultural & Industrial Development (1945-1959) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
Originally built in 1948, the property was the founding location of the Arrow Development Company. Established by four engineers from the Hendy Ironworks Plant in Sunnyvale, the Arrow Development Company developed machinery, truck bodies and trailers, and recreational equipment. Their work captured the attention of Walt Disney in 1953, and he contracted Arrow Development Company to design, build, and test about half of Disneyland's rides by 1960. In 1959, the company revolutionized the steel tube roller coaster, used for the Matterhorn ride, and set the standard for modern roller coasters. Walt Disney Productions purchased a one-third stake in the company in 1960, and relocated Arrow Development Company to 1555 Plymouth Street in Mountain View.
The building appears eligible for the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register under Criteria A/1/b for its major and influential contributions to the development of roller coaster and amusement park technology, as well as the transition of Mountain View's economy after World War II. The period of significance is 1946, the year of construction, through 1960, when Arrow Development Company relocated. Despite the replacement of several windows, doors, and skylights, overall the building retains high integrity. The building retains its overall industrial design, workmanship, and most exterior materials, as well as integrity of setting, location, feeling, and association. The gable-roof addition at the rear of the property was constructed by 1955, within the period of significance of the property, and so is a contributing feature of the building's historic significance.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
Google Street View (2007).
University of California, Santa Barbara Library FrameFinder, historic aerials (1956). Accessed online July 2024, https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 252 MONROE DR City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-1016 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 14807026 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Vernacular Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Not Visible Window Style: Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Enclosed Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Property includes multiple single-family houses and a detached garage with a tank house. Swimming pool behind one house not visible from street.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP4. Ancillary Building (Tank House) *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1931; Aerial photograph, Fairchild Aerial Surveys
*P7. Owner and Address:
MARTINEZ JOHN WILLIAM AND JULIE ELLEN
TRUST, 252 MONROE DR, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
94040
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 252 MONROE DR
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name: Tank House
B3. Original Use: Agricultural B4. Present Use: Agricultural *B5. Architectural Style: Vernacular
*B6. Construction History: The property consists of five or more buildings constructed from the early 1930s to the 1960s. From analysis of aerial photographs, the subject parcel was originally located within a rural area of western Mountain View that was planted with orchards, and eventually developed with housing tracts by the 1950s. An aerial photograph from 1931 shows the footprint of the tank house building, which is still extant. As such, the tank house likely dates to an earlier period of ownership and construction. By the 1940s, several other buildings had been constructed on the property surrounding the tank house.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Swimming Pool, Prominent or Unusual Tree, Tank House, Barn B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Agricultural & Industrial Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View
Period of Significance: ca.1931 Property Type: Agricultural Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
252 Monroe Drive is a multi-family residential property located in the Greater San Antonio neighborhood that is associated with the theme of Agricultural & Industrial Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. In 1933, the owners of the property were Charles Washington Schenk and Ellen Schenk. Charles Schenk was a superintendent of the L.P. Degan Belting Company of San Francisco. Schenk occupied the subject property through the late 1960s. Prior to ownership by the Schenk family, a large tank house was built on the lot, likely for agricultural use associated with the surrounding orchards. Tank houses are an important building typology associated with California's early patterns of development. They stored water for both urban and rural properties prior to the advent of electricity and access to water mains and typically utilized an attached windmill to pump and store water through a self-sufficient system.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP3. Multiple family property
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B6. Construction History
From visual analysis, the tank house appears to have been converted into a residential unit with windows and doors installed at an unknown date. The largest building facing Monroe Drive also appears altered with a Mediterranean Revival facade.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property includes a rare, extant example of a pre-1930s tank house in the Greater San Antonio area of Mountain View.
Therefore, the tank house on the property appears eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion (c). The other buildings on the property are not historically significant. As the original context of the owner and builder of the tank house is not known, and due to alterations, the subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. The tank house retains overall integrity for local designation, despite alterations to the exterior, following conversion to residential use. The tank house has a period of significance of ca.1931, the earliest documentation of the tank house.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Square, box-like form and two-story height
Gable roof
Clapboard siding
Attached vernacular structure
Continuation of B12. References:
“Charles Schenk.” Palo Alto Times, April 8, 1969.
University of California, Santa Barbara Library FrameFinder, historic aerials (1931, 1941). Accessed online June 2024, https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 372 MOUNTAIN VIEW AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1114 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15408023 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Casement Window Material: Wood
Porch: Partial Width Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Partial-width porch with Tuscan columns and shingled railing; wood windows with ogee lugs and diamond muntin upper sash; wood front door with ornately carved detail; and brick chimney. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1905; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
YU ROBERT AND CHU TRACY TRUSTEE, 372
MOUNTAIN VIEW AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 372 MOUNTAIN VIEW AV
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: 372 Mountain View Avenue was built in 1905. It first appears on the 1908 Sanborn map as a one-story, woodframe residence with a rectangular plan and full-width porch. By 1921, the building was enlarged with several additions creating a U-shaped footprint. Additions included an extension to the south side of the primary facade and the west side of the rear facade. A porch was also added to the rear facade.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1905 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
372 Mountain View Avenue is a Craftsman bungalow in the Shoreline West neighborhood associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 372 Mountain View Avenue was built as part of the larger pattern of residential development in surrounding blocks spurred by the need to house employees of the Pacific Press Association, whose printing facility was located less than a half mile to the northeast of the property.
The neighborhood now referred to as "Shoreline West" grew as a residential area at what was then the west edge of Mountain View following the ca. 1904 establishment of the Seventh Day Adventist publisher, the Pacific Press publishing company. The publishing company's plant was located on Villa Street west of what is now South Shoreline Boulevard, having moved to Mountain View from its previous location in Oakland. where it was established in 1874. Seventh-Day Adventist families who moved to the area with the business built their homes in the blocks along Mariposa Street, Pettis Avenue, Palo Alto Avenue, and Mountain View Avenue. According to historian Nick Perry, about 100 Seventh-Day Adventist families moved to Mountain View along with the Pacific Press Association, establishing an industrial enterprise in a town that previously had a population of around 600 and whose economy was based on agriculture. In subsequent decades, members of the Seventh Day Adventist community established to the southwest of the Pacific Press Association built local institutions such as the Mountain View Academy high school, established in 1922, and became active in local politics. By the start of World War II, the neighborhood consisted of dense residential blocks interspersed with patches of orchards remaining from its previous agricultural use. The publishing plant remained in operation in Mountain View until 1984.
The original owner/occupants were not identified through the course of research, however, at least one renter in 1920 was listed as a clerk for the Pacific Press. By 1930, the residence was occupied by a plumber and his family.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register and has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B6. Construction History
Sometime after 1956, the detached rear garage was rotated to face the rear alleyway.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
372 Mountain View Avenue is currently listed in the Mountain View Register as a good local example of a Craftsman bungalow in the Shoreline West neighborhood and retains eligibility under Mountain View Criterion c (Architecture). Due to several additions and extensions to the primary and rear facades, the property does not appear to retain sufficient historic integrity or rise to a level of individual significance for listing in the National Register or California Register. As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility.
The period of significance is 1905, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Hipped roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails Partial-width porch with Tuscan columns and shingled porch railing Wood shingle siding
Fenestration pattern and original wood-sash double-hung windows with diamond muntin upper sash Original, partially-glazed wood door with a circular window and carved Craftsman detailing Exterior brick chimney at front porch.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 360 OAK ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1232 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15812007 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Fixed, Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Partial Width Garage: Basement Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Curved porch columns create oblong openings; exposed rafter tails; exterior brick chimney; and metal awning at primary facade.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1923; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
KESELER INGRID M, 360 OAK ST, MOUNTAIN
VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 360 OAK ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: The building was originally constructed in 1923. An original detached garage was demolished before 2007, and in 2022 the front door was replaced. Metal awning was likely not original. Brick at chimney may have been replaced. *B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1923 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a one-story, single-family Craftsman style residence located in Old Mountain View associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The residence was originally constructed for Alvin Mason in 1923. The property was previously originally owned by William Mason, Alvin Mason's father, who raised Alvin and his siblings at the adjacent property to the north at 336 California Street (demolished). Alvin Mason was a miller and cabinetmaker for the Minton Lumber Company from approximately 1920 through 1940, and retired by 1950. Conceivably, Alvin Mason could have used his trade skills to build the subject residence himself; however, this could not be confirmed through available archival sources. Alvin Mason and his wife Ruth Mason lived at the subject property through the 1990s.
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. It is a good local example of a Craftsman style residence from the 1920s in Old Mountain View, distinguished by its oblong porch openings, and continues to be eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion c. The period of significance is the year the building was constructed, 1923. The property retains all aspects of historic integrity and overall retains integrity for listing in the Mountain View Register
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Gable roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails Stucco cladding
Curved porch columns creating oblong openings
Original fenestration pattern and wood windows
Exterior brick chimney
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View, "360 Oak Street input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 13, 2002.
Google Street View (2007, 2008, 2021, 2022).
"Minton's Honored," The Peninsula Times Tribune, October 31, 1974.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1908, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
United States Federal Census (1930, 1940, 1950). Accessed online June 2024, Ancestry.com.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 340 PALO ALTO AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1118 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15408041 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Dutch Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood - Panel Window Style: Double-Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Partial Width, Wraparound Garage: Detached Garage Other Architectural/Site Features: Dutch gable roof with front-facing gable and two gabled dormers on each of the side facades. A wood frame porch wraps around with Tuscan columns and turned wood balusters. There are two brick chimneys. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
June 29, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1908; Mountain View Assessment Rolls
*P7. Owner and Address:
BYER DOUGLAS R TRUSTEE, 891 ALLARDICE
WAY, STANFORD CA 94305
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
May 4, 2023
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 340 PALO ALTO AV
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk
*B6. Construction History: The subject property was built in 1908. The building first appears on the 1908 Sanborn map, which shows the building footprint as a one-story single-family residence with a compound footprint including a partial-width wraparound porch and several bay windows. The gabled dormers are visible in early 1920s photographs. By 1921, two small ancillary buildings were added to the rear of the parcel, including a rectilinear one-story residential unit in the northeast corner and a rectilinear one-to-one-and-one-half-story storeroom. In 1934, the storeroom was destroyed by a fire, but was eventually rebuilt.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Garage
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1908 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family Folk Victorian residence with Queen Anne and Colonial Revival influences located in the Shoreline West neighborhood, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The residence was part of the larger pattern of residential development in surrounding blocks spurred by the need to house employees of the Pacific Press Association, whose printing facility was located nearby at 1340 Villa Street. The neighborhood now referred to as "Shoreline West" grew as a residential area at what was then the west edge of Mountain View following the 1904 relocation of the Seventh-day Adventist publisher, the Pacific Press publishing company from Oakland, where it was established in 1874. Some 100 Seventh-day Adventist families moved to the area with the business, building their homes in the blocks along Mariposa Street, Pettis Avenue, Palo Alto Avenue, and Mountain View Avenue. The Pacific Press Association established an industrial enterprise in a town which previously had a population of around 600 and whose economy was based in agriculture. In subsequent decades, members of the Seventh-day Adventist community also built local institutions such as the Mountain View Academy high school, established in 1922, and became active in local politics. By the start of World War II, the neighborhood consisted of dense residential blocks interspersed with patches of orchards remaining from its previous agricultural use. The publishing plant remained in operation in Mountain View until 1984, when operations relocated to Idaho and the site was redeveloped.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner. *B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: May 4, 2023
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*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: May 4, 2023 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
Around 2003, the rear storeroom was demolished, and around 2005, the property underwent a renovation that included a one-story addition to the rear facade and construction of a concrete accessibility ramp. It appears that the original wrought iron fence was removed at this time.
Between 2019 and 2021, the subject parcel was subdivided at the southern side. At an unknown date, the detached residential unit was converted to a garage, and the property was reverted back to a single-family residence.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The original owners and occupants of 340 Palo Alto Avenue were James and Susie Stover, who occupied the house through the 1930s or later. In the 1930 census, James Stover was listed without an occupation, and Susie Stover was listed as a salesperson for a dry goods company. Around the 1920s, it appears that the property was converted to multi-family residential use and hosted several renters, possibly within the main residential building or the rear ancillary buildings. George Hood was listed as the builder for the renovation. The property is now a single-family residence.
340 Palo Alto Avenue is significant as an excellent example of Folk Victorian style architecture in Mountain View, associated with early patterns of residential development in the Shoreline West neighborhood. 340 Palo Alto Avenue is eligible for listing in the National Register and California Register at the local level under Criterion C/3 (Architecture) with a period of significance of 1908, the year of construction.
The original owners and occupants of the property do not appear to have made significant contributions to local, state, or national history, and no other notable individuals appear to be associated with the property. Several minor alterations have included a rear addition that is not visible from the public right-of-way and a compatibly designed accessible entrance ramp to the porch. The property retains its characterdefining features and historic integrity for National Register and California Register eligibility. This evaluation does not address Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
One-and-one-half story height
Dutch gable roof with gabled dormers
Asymmetrical massing and fenestration pattern
Wraparound wood-frame front porch with Tuscan columns, cornice, and turned balusters Wood clapboard horizontal siding
Angled bay windows
Double-hung wood sash windows
Brick chimneys.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
Hall, Clifford. Stover Home. 1922. Photograph. California Revealed from Mountain View Public Library. http://archive.org/details/cmv_000404.
Hall, Clifford. Stover Home, Family in Front. ca 1922. Photograph. California Revealed from Mountain View Public Library. https://californiarevealed.org/do/0a0d90c3-51ac-4a44-9d99-077102e4d22e#page/1.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002. “Permits Issued for 17 Buildings.” Daily Palo Alto Times, February 1, 1922, 6. Newspapers.com.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
United States Federal Census (1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950). Accessed online October 2024, Ancestry.com.
University of California, Santa Barbara Library FrameFinder, historic aerials (DATE). Accessed online October 2024, https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 390 PALO ALTO AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1118 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15408039 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage Plan Shape: Irregular Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Jerkinhead Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Partially Glazed Window Style: Casement, Fixed, Double-Hung Window Material: Vinyl, Wood Porch: None Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Jerkinhead roof with rounded corners and lunette window at the upper gable end. Large picture window on the primary facade with decoratively shaped opening and applied ornament above. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
June 25, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1928; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
CHEN SHARON F AND POSKEY JERAL, 390 PALO
ALTO AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 390 PALO ALTO AV
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage *B6. Construction History: 390 Palo Alto Avenue was constructed in 1928 by Fred L. Cozard. Based on comparisons with Sanborn maps, a rectangular rear addition was added sometime after 1943.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Fred L. Cozard
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1928 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family residence located in the Shoreline West neighborhood designed in the English Cottage style that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The builder of the subject property was Fred L. Cozard, who owned and occupied the property with his wife Florence.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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