Mid-Century Modern Homes by City in the Bay Area
This page links our city guides, grouped by county. Each guide is records-based, not a market report. It names only the tracts, builders and architects that public records support, then covers the local rules for changing a house and how to research one. Where the records name no mid-century tract in a city, the guide says so. The one-line notes below come from the sources listed on each city page.
Joseph Eichler was a developer, not an architect; his companies hired firms such as Anshen & Allen, Jones & Emmons and Claude Oakland's office to design their houses. For tracts by name, see our neighborhoods and tracts page, and for postal areas, our ZIP code guides.
Santa Clara County
Regional overview: South Bay.
Palo Alto. The city's 2018 Eichler design guidelines list 31 Eichler neighborhoods, from University Gardens (1949 to 1950) to Los Arboles Addition No. 2 (1974).
Los Altos. UC Berkeley's index of Claude Oakland's firm lists Fallen Leaf Park as a J.L. Eichler Associates project from 1967 to 1969; for many of the city's 1950s tracts, the records give no builder.
Mountain View. The city's draft historic context statement names the Monta Loma Eichlers, approved in 1952, and Eichler's 53-home Grandmeadow tract of 1972.
Sunnyvale. The county recorded Eichler's Sunnyvale Manor in 1947, and the city's parcel layer flags 970 parcels as Eichlers.
Cupertino. The city's 2001 Eichler Design Handbook describes 220 Eichler homes in the Fairgrove area; Rancho Rinconada, built by Stern & Price, isn't an Eichler tract.
Santa Clara. Pomeroy Green, Eichler Homes' 1963 townhouse cooperative designed by Claude Oakland, has been a National Register historic district since 2021.
San Jose. A National Park Service study lists five Eichler neighborhoods built from 1952 to 1963, among them Morepark, Fairglen and Hudson.
Campbell. The city's 1996 historic context statement says more than thirty subdivisions were filed in the late 1940s, but the records we read name no mid-century builder.
Saratoga. A 2017 evaluation prepared for the city describes one Eichler tract, "Eichler Homes of Saratoga," off Cox Avenue, begun in 1964.
Monte Sereno. UC Berkeley's index lists Sereno Foothills, on Via Sereno, as a J.L. Eichler Associates subdivision with drawings dated 1969 and 1970.
Los Gatos. The records we read describe the town's postwar houses in general terms and name few of its tracts.
San Mateo County
Regional overview: Peninsula.
Menlo Park. A 2018 National Park Service study says that by 1949 Eichler had a draftsman designing Stanford Gardens in Menlo Park.
Atherton. The town's history page says more than 80 subdivisions were recorded in the 1940s and 1950s, but we found no record of an Eichler tract there.
Portola Valley. Next to the town, the unincorporated community of Ladera was founded in 1946, and federal filings name Jones and Emmons as its designers.
Redwood City. The tract the records name is Atherwood, one of the subdivisions Anshen and Allen designed for Eichler around 1950.
San Carlos. We found no county, state or National Register record that names a mid-century tract in the city.
Belmont. We found no record naming a mid-century tract in Belmont.
San Mateo. The city's 2026 historic context statement describes two Eichler tracts, 19th Avenue Park inside the city and the Highlands just outside it.
Foster City. A 2016 historical evaluation for the city says T. Jack Foster sold scattered lots to three builders, Eichler Homes among them.
Burlingame. UC Berkeley's index lists Eichler Homes' Mills Estate Nos. 11 and 19, dated 1963 to 1964.
San Francisco
San Francisco. SF Planning's 2011 context statement says Eichler's company built about 100 houses, four high-rise towers and two low-rise developments in the city.
Marin County
Regional overview: Marin County.
San Rafael. The city's General Plan 2040 says about 900 homes were developed by Eichler in Terra Linda between 1955 and 1965.
Mill Valley. UC Berkeley's index lists Harbor Point, filed under Mill Valley, as an Eichler Homes subdivision dated 1964 to 1969.
San Anselmo. The same index lists "Sleepy Hollow," Unit II, under San Anselmo as a subdivision dated 1971 to 1974.
East Bay
Regional overview: East Bay.
Concord. Published accounts agree that Eichler built three tracts in Concord: Parkwood Estates, Rancho del Diablo and Rancho de los Santos.
Walnut Creek. Rancho San Miguel is the city's documented Eichler tract, and its neighborhood association's history begins with a 1954 architect's map.
Oakland. Sequoyah Hills is the one Oakland subdivision that UC Berkeley's index ties to Eichler, dated 1964 to 1965.
Castro Valley. A 2008 Alameda County report describes Eichler's Greenridge tract as around 200 homes, dated 1963.
Beyond the Bay Area
Our Southern California page covers the Eichler Homes subdivisions in Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks and Orange County that UC Berkeley's index dates from 1960 to 1966.
Using these guides
A mailing address or ZIP code doesn't tell you which city or county governs a lot; the parcel record does. The rules on each page are general information, not legal advice. For any house, our guides to checking a mid-century home's permit history and our mid-century home inspection checklist cover the first research steps.
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