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Photos at Palo Alto Historical Society; Elizabeth Traugott's interview with Steve Staiger's in 1997 Palo Alto Online article; The best of Santa Clara Valley 1997 at Metroactive. The mysterious Peter Coutts in a 1998 Palo Alto Online article; A panorama of graffiti painted on the inside of the tower.
It is dedicated to the preservation and display of electrical and mechanical technology and inventions from the 1750s through the 1950s. The museum has a large collection of artifacts that are generally not accessible to the public. Selections from the collection are displayed in a historic house at 351 Homer Ave, Palo Alto, California. [4]
A commemorative plaque that designates this site as California Historical Landmark 857 commemorating the site of John Adam Squire House at 900 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California. The plaque was placed by the California State Parks in cooperation with the Palo Alto Historical Association and the city of Palo Alto, on January 27, 1973. [4]
El Palo Alto, circa 2004. El Palo Alto (Spanish: 'the tall stick' [1]) is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) located on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The namesake of the city and a historical landmark, El Palo Alto is 1083–1084 years old and stands 110 feet (34 m) tall.
Professorville is a registered historic district in Palo Alto, California containing homes that were built by Stanford University professors. The historic district is bounded by Addison Avenue, Waverley Street, Kingsley Avenue, and Ramona Street.
Palo Alto is named after El Palo Alto, a historic 110 ft tall (34 m) California Redwood on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek, sighted and named by the Portolá expedition in 1769. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Ohlone lived on the San Francisco peninsula; in particular, the Puichon Ohlone lived in the Palo Alto area.
The Pedro de Lemos House, also known as Hacienda de Lemos and Waverley Oaks, [2] [3] is a historic house in Palo Alto, California. It was built from 1931 to 1941 for Pedro Joseph de Lemos, a painter, printmaker, illustrator and architect. [4] Lemos also served as the director of the Stanford University Museum of Art from 1918 to 1947. [4]
Between the 1920s until the late 1930s, de Lemos designed and built multiple buildings in Palo Alto, California including 520-526 Ramona Street and across the street at 533-539 Ramona Street, 460 Churchill Avenue (built in 1925) in order to house his art studio, and four Medieval Revival houses at 1550-1560-1566-1579 Cowper Street (built in the ...