San Mateo Highlands Eichler History: The Hillside Tract and the X-100
The San Mateo Highlands, Eichler's hillside tract begun in 1955: its ridge-top setting, the steel X-100, the architects linked to it and what to know about hillside Eichlers.
Primewood Eichler History: Sunnyvale's Late Steep-Gable Tract
Primewood, Sunnyvale: a 35-house Eichler tract from J. L. Eichler Associates, with glass-filled gables, twin-cottage models and a 2017 single-story district.
Fairmeadow Eichler Tract: The Story of Palo Alto's Circle Streets
Fairmeadow, Palo Alto's 'Circles': how the 1951–1954 Eichler tract was mapped and built ring by ring, who designed it, and what original houses show.
Greenmeadow Eichler History: Palo Alto's Jones & Emmons Tract
How Jones & Emmons designed Greenmeadow, Palo Alto's 1954–55 Eichler historic district: six models, a pooled community center, original interiors and today's rules.
Eichler Architects: Who Designed Which Homes, Tract by Tract
A reference index to Eichler's three architecture firms, what each introduced, the Palo Alto and San Jose tracts credited to each in public records, and how to look up your own house.
Eichler Carports, Entry Courts and Blank Street Walls Explained
The closed-looking front of an Eichler is deliberate. How carports, garages, entry courts and fences shape the street side, and what the records say about changing them.
Mid-Century Tract Homes vs. Custom Moderns: What Buyers Should Know
Tract moderns came as sets of models; custom moderns were drawn for one lot. How to tell them apart and why it matters for research, historic value, rules and remodels.