Almond Grove & the Old Neighborhoods
Walk a block off Santa Cruz Avenue and you are among the town’s historic districts: Victorian and Craftsman houses on streets laid out in the 1880s on orchard land.
Discover Almond Grove & the Old Neighborhoods
Broadway was the first residential street in Los Gatos. John W. Lyndon divided the land into 48 lots on September 24, 1881, and the street opened in January 1883; cottages built in 1887 for Thomas Hayselden still stand. (Town of Los Gatos)
Almond Grove, about 40 acres of former almond orchard, was the first and largest subdivision after the town incorporated. Its streets are named for its developers: Wilder, Nicholson, Tait and Bean. John Bean’s spray pump, made to fight San Jose scale, grew from here into the Food Machinery Corporation. (Town of Los Gatos)
Fairview Plaza, surveyed in 1885, keeps its original cul-de-sac and planted island, and about three quarters of its houses date from before 1900. The University-Edelen district grew from small subdivisions cut from the Mason Tract after 1880. (Town of Los Gatos)
These are lived-in neighborhoods: enjoy the houses from the sidewalk.
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