Property Nerd Lab
Eichler Tract Finder
Pick a city to see the tracts our histories cover, with years, builders and architects where the records name them, and a link to each tract's full history.
Pick a city above. The finder covers 35 tracts and projects in seven places, dated 1947 to 1974 in the records our posts used.
Four are National Register historic districts: Green Gables and Greenmeadow in Palo Alto (both 2005), the Fairglen Additions in San Jose (2019) and Pomeroy Green in Santa Clara (2021). Four are mid-century tracts by other builders, listed so you can tell them apart.
Palo Alto
Years, architects and lot counts come from the table in the city's 2018 Eichler design guidelines, whose footnote says lot counts don't necessarily match the number of homes. Two tracts are National Register districts. Start with the Palo Alto Eichler neighborhoods guide.
1949–1950
1950
Green Gables
The state's listing describes 62 one-story homes; the city's table dates the tract 1950–1951 and counts 63 lots.
Green Gables history1950–1951
Greer Park
131 lots. The county recorded Tract No. 796 in 1950, with three circle streets.
Greer Park history1950–1951
Charleston Meadow
158 lots; the records spell it Charleston Meadows. Eichler set up the first architectural control committee here in 1950.
Charleston Meadow history1951–1954
1951–1952 and 1955
Channing Park
57 lots, plus 20 in No. 3. The first has a single-story overlay; No. 3 doesn't.
Channing Park history1953–1954
Walnut Grove
30 lots. In 1992 it became the first Palo Alto neighborhood with a single-story overlay.
Walnut Grove history1954–1955
Greenmeadow
The state's listing describes 243 homes and a community center complex with a pool.
Greenmeadow history1955
1956
Edgewood
93 lots, next to Edgewood Plaza, the shopping center Eichler Homes built in the late 1950s.
Edgewood history1957–1958
1957–1958
1959–1961
Los Arboles
84 lots, plus 31 in the 1974 addition, whose Eichlers were built with two stories from the start.
Los Arboles history
Also in the city's table, without a history on this site yet: El Centro Gardens (1950, Anshen and Allen), Charleston Gardens (1954, Jones and Emmons), Garland Park (1958, Anshen and Allen with Jones and Emmons), Midcourt (1972, Claude Oakland) and Community Center (1973, Claude Oakland). See who designed which tract.
Stanford
These homes sit on Stanford land in unincorporated Santa Clara County, next to Palo Alto. Stanford's housing office says the founders specified that the lands could never be sold, so homes there stand on ground leases. The dates come from the archive of Claude Oakland's firm at UC Berkeley.
1960–1963
Pine Hills
The archive lists Eichler Homes, Inc. on lots in the Pine Hills tracts.
Stanford Eichler history1968 into the early 1970s
Frenchman's Hill
The company Eichler worked through after Eichler Homes closed in 1967.
Stanford Eichler history
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale has tracts from early and late in Eichler's career, plus one Anshen and Allen tract by a different builder. Start with the Sunnyvale Eichler neighborhoods guide.
1947 and 1950
Sunnyvale Manor
A state study calls the second phase, Sunnyvale Manor Addition, "the first architect-designed Eichler subdivision." Its AA-1 prototype was T-shaped.
Sunnyvale Manor historyAbout 1952
Gavello Glen
Eichler's early architects, a different builder. The city's parcel layer doesn't flag these houses as Eichlers.
Gavello Glen history1958–1961
Fairbrae
The city's parcel data shows the tracts filling in from 1958 to 1961. A 2017 request asked the city to rezone Fairbrae Unit 1 from R-1 to R-1/S, the single-story district.
Fairbrae history1960–1961
Rancho Verde
Tract 2653, with 131 lots in the city's parcel layer, all flagged as Eichlers. The Oakland archive also calls it Fairbrae, a name the city uses for a different tract.
Rancho Verde history1961–1962
Fairwood
Tract No. 2944 in the Oakland archive. A later Fairwood Addition (Tract No. 4789, 1969–1970) is filed under J.L. Eichler Associates.
Fairwood history1967–1970
Primewood
The city's report and the archive give different tract map numbers, 4721 and 4621.
Primewood history1968
Rancho Sans Souci
The archive dates it 1968 and 1972 and lists model codes such as SV-3, SV-4 and SV-5. The city's parcel layer shows one-story houses built in 1968.
Rancho Sans Souci history
Mountain View
The city's historic context statement (final draft, August 10, 2026) names the builders of its modern tracts. Not every flat-roofed house in Monta Loma is an Eichler. Start with the Mountain View, Cupertino and Santa Clara guide.
About 1954–1957
Monta Loma Eichlers
Originally known as "Fairview." Approved in 1952 as a 154-home subdivision; the statement says it "ultimately had around 200 homes."
Monta Loma Eichler history1955–1956
Oakwood
Over 200 three-bedroom, two-bath homes. The statement says hiring Anshen & Allen is why Oakwood looks so much like the Eichler tract next door.
Mackay Homes history1955–1959
Mardell Manor
234 one-story homes the statement calls "somewhat more modest" in design.
Covered in the Monta Loma Eichler history1972
Bell Meadows (originally Grandmeadow)
53 four-bedroom homes between Permanente Creek and Miramonte Avenue, with many of the rooflines typical of later Eichlers designed by Claude Oakland. Sources disagree on how the two names relate.
Grandmeadow history
Cupertino
In the city's parcel layer, all 220 parcels zoned for Cupertino's R1-e Eichler standards are Fairgrove Eichlers. Rancho Rinconada is a mid-century tract, but not an Eichler tract.
1960–1961
Fairgrove
220 Eichler homes in two recorded tracts, 2533 and 2828, with 1960 and 1961 build years in the city's parcel layer. Zoned for the city's R1-e Eichler standards.
Fairgrove history and R1-e rulesFrom 1952
Santa Clara
A different kind of Eichler project: attached two-story townhouses on shared grounds instead of houses on their own lots.
Completed 1963
Pomeroy Green
78 townhouses in 17 buildings at Pomeroy Avenue and Benton Street, run as a housing cooperative.
Pomeroy Green historyYear not in the records read
Pomeroy West
Across the street to the west, sharing most of Pomeroy Green's features. It isn't part of the historic district, and the records our post read don't give its unit count.
Covered in the Pomeroy Green history
San Jose
Five neighborhoods built from 1952 to 1963 on the city's west and southwest sides. The federal document counts eight tracts; the city's standards count seven, because they count Morepark once. Start with the San Jose Eichler neighborhoods guide.
1952–1953
1957–1959
Fairglen
A small 30-unit tract along Dry Creek Road. "Fairglen" can also mean the Additions to the south.
San Jose Eichler tracts history1959–1961
Fairglen Additions
Tracts 2238, 2239 and 2240, with 218 units. The nomination says 204 retain the integrity of the original design.
Fairglen Additions history1960–1962
Hudson
Federal lists date it 1960–1962; the city's standards say 1961–1963. For a specific house, check the recorded map with the county.
San Jose Eichler tracts history1962–1963
Fairhaven
Tract 3009, 57 units: the last Eichler Homes development in San Jose. Another federal list dates it 1961–1963.
San Jose Eichler tracts history
What this finder can't do
It lists the tracts our posts cover, not every Eichler tract: Palo Alto's guidelines table alone has more than 30. A neighborhood name isn't proof. The recorded tract number on a title report or parcel record tells you which tract a house is in, and sources sometimes disagree on dates and numbers, so each entry shows what the post found. Zoning and design rules change, so confirm them with the city or county.
Questions about a specific house? Call or text the Boyenga Team at (408) 373-1660 or (650) 383-8606.