Green Gables offers diverse homes, ideal for homebuyers.
“Palo Alto’s Green Gables is a large, primarily residential borough offering an array of home styles and vintages in a peaceful setting.”
Green Gables (MLS #238) is named after one of Palo Alto’s most mature residential developments built-in 1939-1940. An amalgamation of old and new, the multiple sub-districts in Green Gables offer an eclectic blend of homes, from vintage farmhouses and pre-war Tutor, Cottage, and Mediterranean Colonial styles to more modern, 21st-century architecture, predominantly of the Arts & Crafts design.
Green Gables sub-district of Duveneck is where a young Joseph Eichler made his initial mark. With a vision to create mid-century open floor plan designs using natural building materials, Eichler made an enormous impact in the Palo Alto community with his iconic middle-class residential tracts: Green Gables Addition (listed on the National Register of Historic Places), Channing Park, Triple El, and Edgewood.
The southern sub-boroughs of Leland Manor began development in 1948 and were completed by the mid-1950s while the other Eichler development of Triple El (which refers to Elsinore Drive, Elsinore Court, and El Cajon Way) was constructed in 1955.
The tiny micro-district of Garland was built in 1947-1948. Garland has shady, tree-lined streets (it’s most notable being the breezy Garland Drive) lined with original, single-story dwellings.
Over the years, a fair number of Green Gables homes have undergone renovation or complete rebuilds, but the neighborhood still offers pockets of the past, such as Embarcadero Oaks intact vintage dwellings. The crown jewel of Green Gables, Embarcadero Oaks’ most famous street is Fulton, which is transformed every December into “Christmas Tree Lane”.
The established residential neighborhood of Green Gables, with its 80+ years of home styles, offers a look through the ages. Homebuyers can find the perfect place to call home in one of the peaceful, unique sub-boroughs Green Gables has to offer.
