Tract 12 of 32 · 1949–1954 · the early tracts
Fairpark
Forty-three houses recorded in 1954, architect unattributed.
- Recorded
- 1954
- Architect
- —
- Homes
- 43
- Era
- Early
- Streets
- Moreno Avenue
- City record
- City of Palo Alto Eichler Neighborhood Design Guidelines
Fairpark belongs to the cluster of 1954 recordings that fill in around the larger Fairmeadow and Greenmeadow builds. The plans are the mature early-fifties Eichler — three bedrooms, radiant slab, structure left visible, the back of the house given over to glass — executed without the ceremony of a named architect on the tract map.
Forty-three houses is enough to establish a streetscape and small enough that owners tend to know each other. In practice that produces good stewardship: original details survive at a higher rate in tracts this size than in the big ones. The recorded lots run along Moreno Avenue.
What was built here
Early-fifties plans: post-and-beam frame left visible, radiant heat in the slab, a near-blank wall to the street and the rear given over to glass. Compact by modern standards — most have been added to. No atrium; that idea is still years away.
What moves the number in Fairpark
- 1954 plans, pre-atrium, with the full early-Eichler vocabulary intact.
- Unattributed on the recording, which understates the houses. Judge them on the ground.
- Small-tract dynamics — fewer sales, better-preserved originals, thinner comparable data.
What is it worth?
We price Fairpark the way it was built.
By tract, by architect, by what is still intact. Tell us the address and we will come back with the range and the reasoning behind it — not an automated estimate.
Before they hit the market
Most Fairpark homes we sell never reach a portal.
Owners in these tracts tend to know each other. When one decides to move, we usually hear first. Join the list and you will hear early too — no volume, no drip campaign.
Eichlers@Boyenga.comEichlerHomesForSale.comBoyengaTeam.com Eric Boyenga DRE #01254724 · Janelle Boyenga DRE #01254725