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AKA: Palo Alto Community Center, Palo Alto, CA; MacArthur Park Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA
Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses
Designers: Morgan, Julia H., Architect (firm); Julia H. Morgan (architect)
Dates: [unspecified]
Building Notes
Placed on National Register of Historic Places: 07/30/1976. This unpretentious wood-frame structure served as a canteen/recreation center for a World War I U.S. Army encampment, Camp Fremont, in Palo Alto, CA, and as a hostess house for women and children coming to visit men at the camp.
Palo Alto residents used the structure after WW I as a community center and resisted several attempts to demolish it. The restaurant, MacArthur Park, rented the building in 1979 and opened for business in 1982.
Alteration
The former canteen/recreational building was renovated in 1979-1982 to become a restaurant.
Palo Alto Historic Landmark: ID n/a
PCAD id: 1212
