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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.
The school was founded in 1996 by Bischof and Helen Kim, the vice principal, who met while students at Stanford University. [3] It began with eight students who were taught at a picnic table in an East Palo Alto park, [1] [3] moving the next year to a house, [1] then to offices, and finally to 1.6 acres of donated land where it was first housed in temporary buildings. [3]
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.
As of the 2010 census, the population of East Palo Alto was 28,155. It is situated on the San Francisco Peninsula , roughly halfway between the cities of San Francisco and San Jose . To the north and east is the San Francisco Bay , to the west is the city of Menlo Park , and to the south the city of Palo Alto .
The Ravenswood City School District is a public school district headquartered in East Palo Alto, California, US. The district, in the San Francisco Bay Area, serves the communities of East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park. Students from this school district who continue on with public schooling matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School District.
East Palo Alto and Palo Alto share both telephone area codes and postal ZIP codes. In 1990, 43% of East Palo Alto's residents were African Americans, which was the result of redlining practices and racial deed restrictions in Palo Alto, [7] while 34% were Latinos. [8] As of 2020, African Americans were 11%, while Latinos are about 66%. [9]
In 1910, the school moved to its present location at 1310 Bryant Street, and the first structure was the administration building, designed by architect Roy C. Heald in American Craftsman style. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 1926, the Castilleja chapel was designed by architect Birge Clark , in a complimentary design to the existing administration building.
165 University Avenue or Lucky Building or Karma Building is a small rented office building on University Avenue, the main commercial street in downtown Palo Alto, California, that gave rise to Plug and Play Tech Center and to the Amidi Group.