Eichler Homes, Incorporated, Greenmeadow Housing Tract, Palo Alto, CA (1954-1955)

AKA: Eichler Greenmeadow Sub-division, Palo Alto, CA

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - housing

Designers: Eichler, Joseph L., Homes, Incorporated (firm); Jones and Emmons, Architects (firm); Joseph Leopold Eichler (developer); Frederick Earl Emmons (architect); Archibald Quincy Jones (architect)

Dates: constructed 1954-1955

Palo Alto, CA
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Building History

Alice Crenshaw and her family moved into Joseph L. Eichler's (1900-1974) Greenmeadow Tract on 10/31/1954, the first people to do so.

Greenmeadow was one of the most celebrated Eichler's tracts in South Palo Alto, CA; the National Assocation of Home Builders (NAHB) presented a house in the Greenmeadow Tract with an Award of Merit in 1954; Progressive Architecture magazine awarded the Greenmeadow Community with a Citation Award in 1955.

PCAD id: 811

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