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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 incorporated in 1894 by the American industrialist ...
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.
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]
Stanford is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, which borders it to the east, but the CDP itself remains unincorporated. Most of the Stanford University campus and other core University-owned land is situated within the CDP of Stanford, though the Stanford University Medical Center , the Stanford Shopping Center , and the Stanford Research Park ...
Accordingly, these six have a mediation service: Campbell, [153] Fremont, [154] Gardena, [155] Palo Alto, [156] San Leandro, [157] Union City. [158] Definitions differ as to whether this would even count as "rent control". As noted above, Palo Alto declares that it has no rent control, but it does offers mediation over rent raises. [159]
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.
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]