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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 original Varsity Theatre had opened in 1911 on the other side of University Avenue. Reid & Reid were commissioned to design a new building at 456 University Avenue. . Known for the Hotel del Coronado in Southern California, they designed a movie palace in a combination of Mission Revival and Spanish Renaissance styles with a distinctive neon marquee and an elongated, colonnade-lined courty
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.
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.
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.
Baumé was a French restaurant in Palo Alto, California, opened in 2010 by chef Bruno Chemel.Until 2021, it had two Michelin stars.Originally seating 28, the restaurant was reduced to eight tables in the mid-2010s, and staffed only by Chemel, his son Antoine, and his wife Christie.
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 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]