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Houses in Palo Alto, California (13 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Palo Alto, California" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Palo Alto (/ ˌ p æ l oʊ ˈ æ l t oʊ / PAL-oh AL-toh; Spanish for ' tall stick ') is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city of Palo Alto was established in 1894 by the American industrialist ...
The 35-acre property belongs to the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD), and is leased to the City of Palo Alto. [3] The larger remainder of this site, (approx. 39,000 square feet) was leased since 2002 to the Foothill-De Anza College District for the Middlefield Campus of Foothill College, a local community college. [3]
Foothills Nature Preserve (formerly named Foothills Park) is a 1,400-acre (570 ha) park and nature preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, United States, within the city of Palo Alto. From 1969 until 2020, only residents or city employees of Palo Alto and their guests had lawful access to it, a restriction that has sparked "decades ...
The Palo Alto Art Center was originally named the Palo Alto Community Cultural Center when it was founded in 1971. [2] Hayward Ellis King served as a consultant curator in 1972. [3] The building which occupies Palo Alto Art Center was built in 1953 by architect Leslie Nichols and used to be the location for Palo Alto's City Hall. [4]
Paulin Caperon continued using the name Peter Coutts when he arrived in Mayfield (present day Palo Alto). In 1875 he bought 1,400 acres (4.7 km2) of Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito from Jeremiah Clarke for $90,000. [13] Caperon had a heart ailment, and his wife was an invalid.
The development of Ramona Street, named after the 1884 novel Ramona, [2] was an early successful attempt to expand laterally the central commercial district. Pedro Joseph de Lemos, a craftsman, graphic artist and curator of the Stanford Museum had been concerned with the larger scale and somewhat linear development along University Avenue.
A bond was approved by the city of Palo Alto in 1995 to allow for further technological upgrades to the school. [25] The school mascot from 1937–1985 was a dolphin ...