Garland Park | Eichler Neighborhood Palo Alto
- The Garland Park area is a smaller community of Eichlers within the larger Green Gables neighborhood. This was a smaller subdivision with only 35 home which were built in 1958 under the watchful eye of designers Jones & Emmons and Anshen & Allen. Similar to the home design used in the Green Gables development, these homes were built as three-bed, one-bath homes with either a carport or single car garage. The neighborhood was designed with streets in a cruciform shape to help encourage community living and interaction. Eichler wanted neighborhoods to have central gathering spaces where residents could all come together and celebrate in a new breed of tract housing. Today Garland Park is still a beloved Eichler neighborhood with residents who continue to uphold Eichlers ideals of community living. As an older neighborhood, Garland Park has watched Palo Alto and the greater Silicon Valley transform into the bay area we know today. As a worldwide tech hub, Palo Alto is home to companies like HP, Tesla, Skype, and VMware with tech giants Apple, Google, and Facebook all in neighboring cities. Downtown Palo Alto is a charming combination of small-town accessibility and urban ambience. Outdoor cafes, tiny coffee shops, bookstores, mom-and-pop specialty shops, national chains, art galleries, two movie theaters and numerous restaurants attract shoppers, eaters and entertainment-seekers of all ages.
- Eichler Developments By Neighborhood & Listed In Chronological Order:
- 1) University Gardens 1949-1950
- 2) El Centro Gardens 1950
- 3) Charleston Meadows 1950-1951
- 4) Green Gables 1950-1951
- 5) Greer Park 1950-1951
- 6) Channing Park No. 1 and No. 2 1951-1952
- 7) Fairmeadow 1951-1954
- 8) Maybell Gardens 1952
- 9) Midfair 1953-1954
- 10) Walnut Grove 1953-1954
- 11) Charleston Gardens 1954
- 12) Fairpark 1954
- 13) Greenmeadow No. 1 and No. 2 1954-1955
- 14) Channing Park No. 3 1955
- 15) No Name (Blair Court) 1955
- 16) Triple El 1955
- 17) Edgewood 1956
- 18) Faircourt 1956
- 19) Greendell 1956
- 20) Faircourt No. 3 and No. 4 1957
- 21) No Name (Amarillo Avenue) 1957
- 22) Meadow Park 1957-1958
- 23) Royal Manor 1957-1958
- 24) Garland Park 1958
- 25) No Name (Louis Road) 1959
- 26) No Name (Middlefield Road) 1959
- 27) Los Arboles 1959-1961
- 28) Greenmeadow No. 3 1961-1962
- 29) Midcourt 1972
- 30) Community Center 1973
- 31) Los Arboles Addition No. 2