PCAD - Eichler, Joseph L., Homes, Incorporated

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Edward P. Eichler, Joseph Leopold Eichler

Firm Notes

Eichler built his first houses in Sunnyvale, CA, c. 1949 and was responsible for many of the subdivisions that made up the southern portion of Palo Alto, CA. Eichler also built outside of Silicon Valley, including tracts in Marin County, CA, and Orange County, CA.

Eichler's company also was known as "Joseph L. Eichler Associates, Incorporated."

PCAD id: 1343

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Balboa Highlands Tract, Los Angeles, CA		Los Angeles	CA
Eichler Homes Incorporated, House, Palo Alto, CA		Palo Alto	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, 1843 North Woodside Street House, Orange, CA		Orange	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, 3801 East Fairhaven Avenue House, Orange, CA		Orange	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, 602 East Briardale Avenue House, Orange, CA		Fairmeadows, Orange	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Fairhills Housing Tract, Orange, CA	1964	Orange	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Greenmeadow Housing Tract, Palo Alto, CA	1954-1955	Palo Alto	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Model House, Palo Alto, CA		Palo Alto	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Stanford Gardens Housing Tract, Menlo Park, CA		Menlo Park	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Sunnymount Gardens Housing Tract, Sunnyvale, CA		Sunnyvale	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Sunnyvale Manor Housing Tract, Sunnyvale, CA	1949	Sunnyvale	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Terra Linda Housing Tract, San Rafael, CA	1955-1956	San Rafael	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, University Gardens Housing Tract, Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA		Palo Alto	CA
Eichler Homes, Incorporated, X-100 Prototype House, Highlands-Baywood Park, San Mateo, CA	1956	San Mateo	CA
Fairhaven Tract, Orange, CA		Orange	CA
Fairmeadow Housing Tract, Palo Alto, CA	1953	Palo Alto	CA
Fairmeadows Tract, Orange, CA		Orange	CA
Granada Hills Housing Tract, Thousand Oaks, CA		Thousand Oaks	CA
Greenmeadow Community Center, Palo Alto, CA		Palo Alto	CA
Sunnyvale Manor Addition Housing Tract, Sunnyvale, CA	1950	Sunnyvale	CA

Publications

Jones, A. Quincy, Emmons, Frederick E., Builders' Homes for Better Living, 1957. Ditto, Jerry, Stern, Lanning, Eichler Homes: Design for Living, 1995. Eichler, Joseph, Eichler, Steven, Greenmeadow--still vital after 40 years, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 174, 1985. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 174, 1985. Home Buyer's Handbook, 50-52, 1956. "On a Palo Alto slope: a dramatic split-level builder's house", House and Home, 1: 4, 104-105, 4/1952. "A Communal Life that Approaches the Ideal", Living for Young Homemakers, front cover, 7/1955. Nussbaum, Daniel, "Man about the house; Joseph Eichler's tract houses endure as masterpieces of snazzy midcentury populism", Los Angeles Magazine, 38, 11/2000. "Man about the house; Joseph Eichler's tract houses endure as masterpieces of snazzy midcentury populism", Los Angeles Magazine, 38, 11/2000. "Eichler, Joseph L. obituary", Los Angeles Times, part II: 3, col 8, 7/27/1974. Harrison, Susan Hall, Post World War II tract houses : the subdivision developments of Joseph L. Eichler, 1949-1956, 1980. "Eichler : modernism rebuilds the American dream book review", Times Literary Supplement, 6/27/2003.

Links

Eichler Homes of San Francisco and Marin Counties How Postwar Icon Joseph Eichler Built a Suburb in the Middle of San Francisco Real estate: The rebirth of the Eichler The 'Paradise Lost' Eichler Never Regained: The Bazett House of Frank Lloyd Wright With Sunny, Modern Homes, Joseph Eichler Built The Suburbs In Style

Eichler, Joseph L., Homes, Incorporated (Practice)

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