Tract 10 of 32 · 1949–1954 · the early tracts
Walnut Grove
Thirty houses with both Anshen & Allen and Jones & Emmons on the drawings.
- Recorded
- 1953–1954
- Architect
- Anshen & Allen · Jones & Emmons
- Homes
- 30
- Era
- Early
- Streets
- Mumford Place
- City record
- City of Palo Alto Eichler Neighborhood Design Guidelines
Walnut Grove is a small tract with an unusually strong architectural roster — both of Eichler's principal firms appear on the 1953–54 recording. That overlap was normal for the period, when Eichler ran plans from more than one office simultaneously, but it makes a thirty-house tract more varied than its size suggests.
The result is a block where neighboring houses can come from different design minds. For a buyer that means the tract name tells you less than usual and the specific house tells you more. The recorded lots run along Mumford Place.
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 Walnut Grove
- Two firms, thirty houses. Plan-by-plan variation is real; do not assume uniformity.
- Mid-fifties construction sits right at the transition toward the larger, more confident plans that follow.
- Mature planting. Fifty years of growth changes how much light reaches a glass wall.
What is it worth?
We price Walnut Grove 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 Walnut Grove 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