Bay Area Eichler Map Explorer

A map for looking closer.

Start with a place. Follow it into a photograph. Then ask a better question about the house. The Boyenga Team’s Bay Area Eichler Photo Atlas connects nine documented archive homes with six neighborhood orientation points in Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, the San Mateo Highlands, Sunnyvale and San Jose. It is a small, deliberately focused collection that complements the deeper EichlerSource neighborhood guides.

The orange markers identify homes represented in the Boyenga photo archive. The teal markers identify neighborhood references. Open a marker to read its context and follow the Boyenga guide links. On a phone, open the full-size Boyenga map for more room to explore.

The photographs on this page and in the companion journal come from the Boyenga Team photo archive. They show homes at the time of photography. The map is a research companion, not a current listing feed, a walking-tour invitation or a survey of tract boundaries.

Fifteen places, fifteen different questions.

Rancho Sans Souci · What does a short court change?

Olympus Court provides a street-level orientation point for Rancho Sans Souci, a Sunnyvale Eichler pocket discussed in the Boyenga guide alongside MacKenzie Drive, Laurentian Way and Pendleton Avenue. Start with the approach: a short court invites a different reading of frontage, entry sequence and sightlines than a through street. Compare how each house meets its own garden rather than assuming a shared plan or renovation history from the neighborhood name.

The Rancho Sans Souci neighborhood guide develops the development history and local street context. This teal point identifies the geocoded street, not a photographed home, parcel, tract perimeter or invitation to enter private property. Keep an orientation map separate from the records needed to establish the history of a particular house.

1147 Pulora Court · What makes an atrium useful?

White beams frame evening sky above the planted edges of this remodeled Fairbrae Unit 1 home. Follow the clear route toward the glass doors, then imagine the reverse view from inside. The Sunnyvale atrium study develops questions about circulation, privacy and daylight from the original Boyenga archive photograph. Pair it with the Fairbrae Unit 1 guide for neighborhood context. This private residence is an archive reference, not a current listing or public tour stop.

Rancho Verde · How does a roofline shape the street?

Two original photographs from the Boyenga Rancho Verde collection pair a low gray facade and red entrance with a shallow gable and yellow door. Compare the roof edges, the depth of each approach and the way mature planting frames the house. The illustrated Rancho Verde guide develops those observations alongside the main neighborhood’s history. Trenton Drive at McIntosh Court is the map’s orientation reference; it is not an inferred location for either photograph. Keep the main neighborhood separate from Rancho Verde Addition, and distinguish guide boundaries, recorded tracts and zoning districts when comparing counts.

1010 La Salle Drive · What makes a window more than an opening?

In the Fairorchard archive, a shallow gable shapes the front elevation while a round kitchen window frames a smaller garden view inside. Read the two photographs together: roof, high glass, wood and pendant lighting create different scales of attention. The illustrated Fairorchard guide keeps the Wright–Edmonton–La Salle street references alongside the familiar real-estate name. Details visible in a photograph are not automatically original.

599 Dawn Drive · How do you read a later architectural chapter?

The Sunnymount Gardens study pairs a redesigned porch and entrance with a connected great room. Boyenga’s 2025 listing describes a full redesign by CAL Design Architects and an effective age of 2003. Keep that later property history separate from the early neighborhood: these are not photographs of an unchanged 1948–1949 house. Explore the Sunnymount Gardens guide to compare the development story with the renovation study. Both new Sunnyvale references are private residences represented by archive photographs, not current listings or public tour stops.

1484 Kingfisher Way · How does daylight support a daily routine?

The Fairwood study pairs a low, composed street elevation with a kitchen and dining area looking toward the garden. Compare the protected entrance with the skylight and glazing inside. Then follow the everyday route from preparing a meal to sitting down: a useful test of architecture that goes beyond counting rooms. See the paired archive photographs in the Sunnyvale Fairwood guide. Fairwood and the later Fairwood Addition are separate developments. This private home is an archive reference, not a current listing or public tour stop.

1732 Hudson Drive · Can a facade hold light and privacy together?

The archive view at dusk places glowing high windows above a largely enclosed street elevation. Follow the projecting beam ends toward the recessed entry, then compare how the house meets its garden. Hudson remains a separate neighborhood from Fairglen Additions across Meridian. Explore the illustrated Hudson guide.

2366 Fairglen Drive · What connects the atrium to the living room?

Two archive photographs reverse the viewpoint: one looks from the living room toward the planted court; the other begins at the orange entry door. Read the beams, glass and clear route as a connected sequence. The property appears in the Fairglen Additions historic-district documentation; it does not represent every plan in the district. See the paired photographs in the Fairglen Additions guide. Both San Jose homes are private residences represented by archival photographs, not current availability claims.

X-100 · What changes when the frame is steel?

At 1586 Lexington Avenue in the San Mateo Highlands, Jones & Emmons explored an experimental steel house for Eichler. The Boyenga archive pairs a restrained street elevation with an interior of orange-painted posts and beams, roof lights and planting. Compare how the structure shapes the room, while keeping this custom experiment distinct from the neighborhood’s production houses. See the newly illustrated Highlands neighborhood guide and Boyenga’s X-100 photo essay. Photography: Sabrina Huang and Boyenga Team. The property is a private residence; the marker is not an invitation to enter.

19 Irving Avenue · How does the frame shape the room?

The Atherton archive invites a close reading of exposed beams, high glazing and the transition between the interior and its landscaped setting. Joseph and Lillian Eichler’s former residence is a custom commission with its own history. Its architectural significance does not make its plan a template for every house associated with the Eichler name. Use the map to locate the reference, then spend time with the photographs and the documented property story.

Read the Boyenga Atherton architectural guide and the Atherton guide. The archive photograph is by David Eichler, 2024. Access to the residence is private.

675 Evergreen Street · Where does the living space end?

The 2019 Boyenga archive pairs an exterior under mature trees with an interior opening toward a patio. Compare the low roof line outside with the pale beams inside. Then look at the threshold: glazing, paving, planting and furniture all influence the relationship between the room and the garden. These are observations from a dated image, not a report on current condition.

Continue with Boyenga’s Menlo Park Eichler collection. The archive address is a reference for the photographs, not an invitation to enter the property or a claim that it is available for purchase.

Stanford Gardens · What does a neighborhood name establish?

Evergreen Street at Stanford Avenue provides a historical orientation reference for Stanford Gardens. The early development is associated with draftsman Castor and 1950, before the later architectural partnerships most often associated with Eichler. A neighborhood label alone cannot establish a particular house’s builder, architect or alteration history. The marker identifies a research starting point, not a perimeter.

The Stanford Gardens guide keeps conflicting historical house counts separate from today’s inventory and explains the records worth seeking for an individual property.

Oakdell Park · What happens when the sources disagree?

Magnolia Court is an orientation point within the street references associated with Oakdell Park. The development’s archival material provides a useful lesson in careful research: a period brochure describes fourteen houses built, while later histories report sixteen. The map preserves that difference. It does not choose the larger number, blend the two or treat either as the number of surviving homes today.

Explore the period imagery and the full discussion in the Oakdell Park guide. An orientation marker cannot replace a subdivision map, parcel history or property-specific documentation.

Greenmeadow · How does a neighborhood share space?

The Parkside Drive reference brings community planning into the conversation. Greenmeadow’s shared recreational setting helps explain a neighborhood conceived as more than a collection of houses. Keep the earlier development and later Unit III distinct, and confirm current access arrangements separately. The marker is an orientation reference, not a historic-district boundary. Read the Boyenga Greenmeadow guide.

Fairmeadow · What changes when a street curves?

Fairmeadow’s circles change the approach to a home and the way its frontage meets the street. Compare both directions of arrival, then examine the actual garden rather than assuming its shape from the road. This broad neighborhood point is not a tract centroid or an inventory of Eichler properties. The Boyenga Fairmeadow guide separates historical house counts, mapped lots and architectural attribution.

Use the map as the beginning of a conversation.

Choose the place that interests you, read the note, and follow the related guide. If you are comparing homes, keep location questions separate from building questions. A map can orient you among streets; it cannot establish a roof’s condition, the extent of permitted work or how the home feels at different times of day. For daily routines, assess the actual route and the conditions relevant to you.

Menlo Oaks is not pinned as an Eichler tract in this focused collection. Its small reported Eichler group should be distinguished from the much larger, varied neighborhood and its unincorporated jurisdiction. Read the Menlo Oaks guide before drawing conclusions from a broad neighborhood label.

Bring an address, a photograph or a question to the Boyenga Team’s Property Nerds. Our NextGenAgents approach uses clear visual storytelling and organized property research to help you decide what to investigate next.

Cover photograph: 19 Irving Avenue, Atherton · David Eichler Photography, March 2024 · © Boyenga Team.