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Both tracts · Confirmed from transaction records

He named one tract after the Revolution.

Lexington. Yorktown. Ticonderoga. Bunker Hill. Monticello. Brandywine. Forge. New Brunswick. White Plains. Allegheny. Powhatan. Bennington. It is consistent across the Highlands and it is the quickest way to know you have crossed into the tract. Down on the bay plain, two years earlier, he had used women's first names instead.

Verified against 30 Eichler-era transactions

Streets below are listed as carrying Eichler-era homes where we have transaction evidence, and flagged where a street is named in a source but the construction is later or non-Eichler. A street being on this list does not mean every house on it is an Eichler.

A Highlands Eichler seen straight on from across a cul-de-sac: a long low roofline, paired garage doors, textured block and vertical board cladding, mature conifers behind.
Ticonderoga Drive, at the southern edge of the Eichler tract. The reason these streets read as one thing from the kerb is the roofline — it runs the full width of each elevation and then picks up again next door. 2055 Ticonderoga Drive · Boyenga Team

The tract, drawn

Two boundaries, and only one of them is the Eichler tract.

The tract and the census place are different shapes, and quoting one while meaning the other is how bad comparables and bad home counts get made. We have not seen them drawn together anywhere else.

Boundary diagram of the San Mateo Highlands Eichler tract and the wider census place A schematic map. An inner block marks the Eichler tract, bounded by Lexington Avenue and the watershed lands on the west, Polhemus Road on the east, Laurel Hill Drive and Seneca Lane on the north, and Allegheny Way and Ticonderoga Drive on the south. A larger dashed block marks the Highlands census designated place, bounded by Interstate 280, State Route 92, Polhemus Road and Crystal Springs Road. Protected watershed is hatched to the west. NORTH HIGHLANDS CENSUS PLACE — LARGER THAN THE TRACT, AND INCLUDES NON-EICHLER HOUSING CRYSTAL SPRINGS ROAD STATE ROUTE 92 INTERSTATE 280 CRYSTAL SPRINGS SFPUC PENINSULA WATERSHED — 23,000 ACRES, NOT BUILDABLE THE EICHLER TRACT INTERIOR GRID IS ABSTRACT — SEE THE NOTE BELOW LEXINGTON AVENUE POLHEMUS ROAD LAUREL HILL DRIVE · SENECA LANE ALLEGHENY WAY · TICONDEROGA DRIVE THE X-100 1586 LEXINGTON · NRHP 16000381 RECREATION DISTRICT 1851 LEXINGTON · CSA 1, NOT AN HOA 1796 LEXINGTON — THE EDGE PHOTOGRAPH YORKTOWN ROAD — INTERIOR LIFE HOUSE 1651 + SEVEN 1965 TWO-STOREYS POSITION WITHIN THE TRACT NOT SURVEYED DIAGRAMMATIC. THE FOUR EDGES ARE AS THE TRACT DESCRIPTION GIVES THEM. THE INTERIOR GRID IS ABSTRACT — NO PUBLISHED SOURCE ORDERS THE INTERIOR STREETS, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO INVENT ONE. FOR SURVEYED GEOMETRY USE THE COUNTY MAP VIEWER.
Two boundaries, drawn together for the first time as far as we can tell. The solid block is the Eichler tract as Eichler Network describes it. The dashed block is the Highlands census designated place, which is larger and takes in housing Eichler never touched — which is why parcel counts and census figures for “the Highlands” keep disagreeing with Eichler counts.

The Highlands

Fifteen streets with Eichler-era homes.

Confirmed from verified Eichler-era transactions plus Eichler Network's tract description. Build years shown are those observed in the transaction record, not the full range for the street.
StreetNotesYears seen
Lexington AvenueThe spine of the tract and its western edge. Carries the X-100 at 1586 and the Recreation District at 1851.1956–58
Yorktown RoadThe most architecturally significant street here. The Belluschi Life House at 1651, and seven 1965 Claude Oakland two-storeys on the east side. Also the name of the only known San Mateo model. 1957
Ticonderoga DriveSouthern edge of the Eichler tract per the tract description.1958
Bunker Hill DriveThe circa-1959 brochure advertises a junior high school site here. Rendered "Bunker Mill" by brochure OCR — that is a scanning error. Some later infill.1958
New Brunswick Drive—1958
Allegheny WaySouthern edge of the Eichler tract per the tract description.1957
Monticello Road—1956
Forge Road——
Laurel Hill DriveNorthern edge of the Eichler tract per the tract description.1964
Laurel Hill Court—1961
Brandywine Road——
White Plains Court—1957
French Creek Place——
Powhatan Place—1956
Roxbury Lane—1960
Seneca LaneNamed in the tract description as part of the northern boundary.—
Cobblehill PlaceLater, non-Eichler construction. A 2022 build here sold in the same window and is exactly the kind of sale that contaminates a neighbourhood median.2022
Bennington CourtLater, non-Eichler construction. 1976
An aerial along Lexington Avenue showing Eichlers lining one side of the road and open watershed grassland on the other, running down to Crystal Springs Reservoir.
Lexington Avenue, looking north. It carries the X-100 at 1586 and the Recreation District at 1851, and it is also the western edge of the tract — houses on one side, watershed on the other. 1796 Lexington Avenue · Boyenga Team

The boundary, in street terms

Per Eichler Network, the Eichler tract runs to Polhemus Road on the east; Lexington Avenue and the watershed lands on the west; Laurel Hill Drive and Seneca Lane on the north; and Allegheny Way and Ticonderoga Drive on the south.

The wider Highlands census place is bigger — I-280 to SR-92 to Polhemus to Crystal Springs Road — and includes housing that is not Eichler at all. Both boundary sets, side by side →

Infill you should know about

Not everything inside the boundary is from the fifties and sixties. The Chamberlain Development Group proposed 250-plus infill homes in the Highlands, was cut back to 96 by 1998, and was finally approved for eleven; three were built on Bunker Hill with eight more planned. The neighbourhood also contains traditional homes built by Whitecliff.

This matters for pricing as much as for history: a portal's "neighbourhood median" will happily mix a 2022 infill build with a 1957 Eichler. Which is why we don't use one →

19th Avenue Park

Eight streets and two lanes in.

Boundary diagram of the 19th Avenue Park Eichler tract A schematic map. A block marks the tract, bounded by South Delaware Street, Concar Drive and South Grant Street, with two access lanes — Charles Lane off South Delaware and Betty Lane from South Grant. Hayward Park Caltrain station lies two blocks away. The eight interior streets are listed but not positioned. NORTH 19TH AVENUE PARK — INSIDE THE CITY OF SAN MATEO S. DELAWARE STREET S. GRANT STREET CONCAR DRIVE CHARLES LANE ACCESS BETTY LANE ACCESS CALTRAIN — HAYWARD PARK, TWO BLOCKS EIGHT INTERIOR STREETS JOANNE DR · WOLFE DR · CONNIE AVE · ELEANOR DR EDNA WAY · JODY CT · CELESTE DR · VANESSA DR PLUS THE WEST SIDE OF S. GRANT NEAR HADDON DRIVE POSITIONS NOT SURVEYED 637 VANESSA — PHOTOGRAPHED DIAGRAMMATIC. THE BOUNDING STREETS AND THE TWO ACCESS LANES ARE AS THE SOURCES GIVE THEM. THE INTERIOR GRID IS ABSTRACT. 1953–55 · JONES & EMMONS · ~235 HOMES · THREE BASIC FLOOR PLANS · MLS AREA 418
The other tract, at the same treatment. Flat, small, bounded by three streets and reached through two lanes — and two blocks from a Caltrain platform, which is the single biggest practical difference between living here and living on the ridge.
  • Joanne Drive
  • Wolfe Drive
  • Connie Avenue
  • Eleanor Drive
  • Edna Way
  • Jody Court
  • Celeste Drive
  • Vanessa Drive

Plus homes on the west side of S. Grant Street near Haddon Drive. The two ways in are Charles Lane off S. Delaware Street and Betty Lane from S. Grant Street. The tract is bounded by S. Delaware Street, Concar Drive and S. Grant Street, and sits in MLS area 418 — inside the City of San Mateo, unlike the Highlands.

The tract in full →

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What has traded on it, in what condition, what the lots do, what is uphill, and — where we can establish it — which plan the houses are. That last one nobody has published, and we are working on it.