Documented Eichler Houses and Listed Historic Districts
Joseph Eichler’s Personal Residence
Eichler X-100
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In Southern California, the records we read show local listings for Eichler tracts rather than National Register ones. The City of Los Angeles lists Balboa Highlands as a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, adopted by the City Council in 2010, and its page credits the design to A. Quincy Jones, Frederick Emmons and Claude Oakland. The City of Orange says it designated its three Eichler tracts, Fairhaven, Fairhills and Fairmeadow, as local historic districts in 2018, and that projects affecting the exterior of an Eichler home there must comply with the Orange Eichler Design Standards. A search of National Park Service and state preservation pages turned up no National Register listing for these tracts. See our Southern California page.
Listed in Northern California
These Bay Area Eichler places are on the National Register of Historic Places or a city's landmark list. Each is covered on one of our pages or posts.
Green Gables and Greenmeadow, Palo Alto. Both were registered as National Register historic districts on July 28, 2005. Palo Alto's Eichler guidelines credit Green Gables, built in 1950 and 1951, to Anshen & Allen. Greenmeadow's listing describes 243 houses and a community center; Eichler Homes built the tract in 1954 and 1955 from Jones & Emmons models. See our Green Gables and Greenmeadow histories.
Fairglen Additions, San Jose. Listed on the National Register on June 6, 2019, with 204 contributing houses and 14 non-contributors. The tract was built from 1959 to 1961 between Curtner Avenue and Andalusia Way. See our Fairglen Additions history.
Pomeroy Green, Santa Clara. The National Park Service listed it as a historic district on March 24, 2021. The nomination describes 78 two-story townhouses, completed in 1963, and credits architect Claude Oakland and landscape architects Sasaki, Walker and Associates. See our Pomeroy Green history.
The X-100, San Mateo Highlands. Eichler Homes' experimental steel-frame model house, designed by A. Quincy Jones of Jones & Emmons, opened to the public on October 6, 1956. It is listed on the National Register and privately owned. See our X-100 page.
A Shubert Drive house, Saratoga. The city's 2023 Heritage Resource Inventory lists a "California Modern/Eichler" house on Shubert Drive as a city Historic Landmark with a Mills Act entry, along with Eichler entrance planters on DeHavilland and Shubert drives. See our Saratoga guide.
About the houses pictured above
The houses and places pictured above are examples, each with its own page, not a list of landmarks. Of them, the X-100 is the one we found listed on the National Register. The other pages describe house types, tracts and single houses through public records, without street numbers.
What a listing does
Under federal law, National Register listing alone places no limits on what a private owner does with a property unless the project receives federal funding or permits, though state and local rules can still apply. Local designations add their own review: Los Angeles has its overlay zone, Orange has its Eichler design standards, and San Jose reviews exterior changes to Eichler houses on its historic resources list. A 2019 San Jose memo also says National Register listing doesn't make a house eligible for the Mills Act there; it has to be a designated City Landmark. Our guides Is my house historic? and the Mills Act explain the steps.
This is general information, not legal advice. For a specific property, check with the city or county planning staff or an attorney.
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