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	Sunnvale Real Estate - Eichlers - Eichler Homes For Sale
		He learned that both houses were built by developer Joseph Eichler (1900-1974), who brought mid-century modernism to the masses with his bold, spare houses.
		Catherine Munson, who worked for Eichler Homes, Inc., from 1958 until 1974 (the year of Joseph Eichler's death), recalls seeing a house that had been fitted with Victorian stained-glass front doors, which she says are "inappropriate for this kind of minimalist contemporary architecture.
		Eichler enthusiasts agree that the ultimate desecration is demolishing a healthy house to put up a monstrosity at odds with the rest of a lean, low Eichler neighborhood.
	nilerdal.drwresults.com /index.php?pg=followeichlersnilerdal (1132 words)

	Eichler Network: Eichler History Flashback
		By the mid-1940s, Joseph Eichler had become intrigued by modernist design and in particular one of the creations of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who had designed the Bazett house (Hillsborough, California), a rented home for Eichler during World War II.
		Joseph Eichler passed away in 1974 at age 73.
		One side of Eichler was a relentless go-getter who knew what he wanted, how to get to it, and how to get around the roadblocks and even his own shortcomings.
	www.eichlernetwork.com /ENHist.html (530 words)

	Eichler Houses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eichlers were attainable dream-houses when the first came on the market, and they're still dream-houses for those who are lucky enough to live in them, and for the hundreds who are hoping that one will go on the market so they can snap it up.
		Eichler Homes, Inc., was established in 1949, and in 1959 the company expanded to Southern California by developing tracts in Orange.
		Eichler homes' innovative designs were ahead of their time - not simply because of elements like "front-to-back living," atriums, or including two bathrooms in a three-bedroom house, but because these elements were included in tract houses.
	www.cityoforange.org /localhistory/eichler/index.htm (224 words)

	Eichler City
		Eichler contemporaries are strongly identified with radiant heating, but a few other local merchant builders, notably Mackay and Coastwise, also used it, although not for long, and it's not unusual to find radiant in custom homes of the '50s and '60s.
		Also in 1947 Eichler bought 45 acres of ranch land in north Sunnyvale, a transaction that was almost certainly a passing of the torch from one local giant to the next: the sellers were undoubtedly the Murphys, a famous South Bay pioneer family who gave their first names to a number of Sunnyvale's streets.
		The Eichlers and other contemporaries of Mountain View are either the small and inexpensive efforts typical of the earliest years, or the large, luxurious homes of the early 1970s.
	johnfyten.com /eichler_city.htm (4260 words)

	Modernism for the masses (April 02, 2003)
		And though Eichler's developments weren't by any means loved by all, they have emerged as a unique expression of mid-century ideals that are just as relevant today as they were in the 1950s.
		Joseph Eichler, a successful but frustrated CFO at Nye and Nisson - a large wholesale foods business run by his in-laws - was just about to rent a house that would change his life.
		Eichler's main competition was from such builders who kept costs low by using traditional construction methods and materials, offering their buyers familiarity instead of progress.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2003/2003_04_02.eichler02.html (1577 words)

	Sequoyah Hills Homeowners Association: Eichler Links
		Eichler Archives — Flash site with a wealth of original advertising used by Eichler; use this site to gain a sense of the developer's aesthetics, and the manner in which the homes were originally presented to consumers.
		Eichler Interview: Race and Housing — This insightful 1964 interview with Joseph Eichler provides background to the developer's most notable achievement: abandoning race restrictions in the early 1950s, a full decade or more before other developers here (not Alabama, but the Bay Area) began selling homes to Asian-Americans and African-Americans, as well as Anglos.
		Eichler Homes Realty — Jerry Ditto, a peninsula real estate agent and one of Design for Living's authors, offers his perspective on Eichlers; if you own an Eichler, you probably are on his "Eichler Insights" newsletter's mailing list.
	www.sequoyahhome.org /links/links_eichlers_content.htm (680 words)

	Sunnyvale Real Estate & Homes, Saratoga Real Estate & Homes, Eichler Homes - Article
		Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer of residential suburbs whose socially conscious ethic, progressive planning, and elegant modern design for moderately priced housing in California still serves as a standard for hosing developments today.
		Eichler homes have widely spaced post-and-beams instead of standard wood stud construction, redwood ceilings and either mahogany or redwood paneling, a design that allows for nonstructural-structural glass walls and open interior spaces.
		Eichler home owners say Eichler style homes bring a light and spacious feeling to the house and are an ideal layout for enjoying the outdoors.
	nilerdal.com /content/article.html?id=112005 (966 words)

	A History of Rancho San Miguel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eichler's Rancho San Miguel development was but one of many major changes sweeping Walnut Creek and Ygnacio Valley: The village's 1950 population of 2400 would more than triple in a few years.
		While Eichler was hailed as villain by some for his mercenary deeds and tough style, others saw him for his vision, risk taking, and relentless pursuit of excellence and innovation.
		When Joe Eichler burst onto the home building scene in the 50's, the time was ripe for a new kind of housing: America was moving out of big cities and away from more traditional housing.
	www.ranchosanmiguel.org /history_bb_2.html (1293 words)

	Eichler homes - II
		Eichler made it a point to give two baths for three-bed house, and to be in competition others had to follow that.
		Joseph Eichler was the first architect who went beyond racism and made it possible for a common man to buy and enjoy his houses.
		Later, the drawbacks of Eichler design became evident:  His open floor plans and thin wooden partitions were unable to cut the noise in the house.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/design_styles_retired/67192 (392 words)

	Eichler Homes of Balboa Highlands - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Joseph Eichler was not an architect, but he revolutionized the building of tract homes with unique, contemporary designs that were also affordable.
		Eichler also was an urban planner ahead of his time.
		Eichler died in 1974, but the imprint of his architectural designs lives on in about 3,000 homes in Palo Alto.
	www.lottaliving.com /balboahighlands/re_a_joseph_eichler.shtml (315 words)

	Eichler Homes for Sale \| Eichlers in Marin & San Francisco
		Eichler for Sale is an online guide for fellow Eichler enthusiasts and mid-century modern design fans who appreciate "California Modern" residential architecture which was influenced, and partially defined by, California-based real estate developer Joseph Eichler and his firm, Eichler Homes.
		Between 1950 and 1974, Joseph Eichler partnered with some of the most progressive and well respected architects and architectural firms (including Anshen + Allen, A. Quincy Jones, Claude Oakland and Raphael Soriano) to build more than 11,000 modernist Eichler homes.
		All of which are easily discernable by their open floorplans and floor-to-ceiling glass which help blur the line between indoor and outdoor living.
	www.eichlerforsale.com (259 words)

	Eichler L.A.
		The houses were built by Joseph Eichler, the influential, uncompromising developer and liberal taste-maker to the midcentury middle class.
		Eichler was the first California builder to hire progressive architects to translate Frank Lloyd Wright's and the experimental Case Study House custom designs into affordable tract houses.
		Eichler also introduced his buyers to new technology and industrial materials: foam insulation, acrylic skylights and concrete slab foundations with pebble floors inside and out.
	www.eichlerla.com /blog.html (2258 words)

	archrecord2 \| on the side \| The Orange Peels
		Joseph Eichler built nearly 11,000 tract homes in Northern California between 1949 and the early 1970s that came to personify the spirit of California living at the time.
		The Eichler homes, mostly single-story houses with flat roofs, floor-to-ceiling glass, radiant-heated floors, and atrium gardens, were modest and modern, appealing to the parents of the Baby Boom Generation.
		The Eichler Network, www.eichlernetwork.com, was established in 1993 to be a support network for Eichler homeowners.
	www.architecturalrecord.com /archrecord2/live/OnTheSide/orangePeels.asp (577 words)

	Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives
		The Eichler Network, a publishing venture that includes a newsletter, Web site, and other resources relating to the care and feeding of the houses, touted its new history book about the Eichler experience.
		Catherine Munson, who worked for Eichler Homes, Inc., from 1958 until 1974 (the year of Joseph Eichler's death), recalls seeing a house that had been fitted with Victorian stained-glass front doors, which she says are "inappropriate for this kind of minimalist contemporary architecture.
		Eichler enthusiasts agree that the ultimate desecration is demolishing a healthy house to put up a monstrosity at odds with the rest of a lean, low Eichler neighborhood.
	www.nationaltrust.org /magazine/archives/arch_story/011703p.htm (1005 words)

	Joseph Eichler \| Modern Architecture \| Modern Homes \| Eichler Homes \| Eichler Resources \| Eichler Network \| Pure ...
		But a post-war builder of a different sort, Joseph Eichler, who built innovative contemporary houses in California from the late 1940s to the 1970s, has inspired a devoted following who nurture their Eichler originals through a busy website (www.eichlernetwork.com), a 16-page quarterly newsletter and a laudatory coffee table book.
		Eichler wanted to hear if we thought something was misplaced or could work better, and he would always send an architect out to talk about it,” says Munson.
		Eichler owners become so obsessed that they carefully seek out just the right furniture and artwork to embellish their nests.
	www.purecontemporary.com /FeatureArticle/article/7 (861 words)

	Joseph Eichler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between 1950 and 1974, his company, Eichler Homes, built over 11,000 homes in Northern California and three communities in Southern California,along with 3 homes in Chestnut Ridge NY.
		Due to soaring land prices by the mid-1960s redevelopment blossomed and Eichler began building low- and high-rise redevelopment projects in San Francisco's Western Addition and Bayview, and luxury high-rises and clustered housing on Russian Hill and Diamond Heights, along with the trendsetting co-op communities Pomeroy Green and Pomeroy West in Santa Clara.
		Eichler, unlike most builders at the time, established a non-discrimination policy and offered homes for sale to anyone of any religion or race.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Eichler (391 words)

	AMERICAN BUILDER, August 1963 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eichler is a unique builder, with a unique story - and American Builder sent West Coast Editor Bill Rodd to get it.
		Eichler homes, as you know, are highly distinctive in design, and our buyers are mostly university graduates - lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc. We must have sales people who can become enthusiastic over our architecture and construction, and who can meet this class of buyers at their own level.
		We want them to pass on ideas for improving our product and our practices; we expect them to be constantly on the alert to see that models are spotless, that signs are in place, that no delays occcur in processing sales, etc. Some of our men have been with us for nine years.
	www.eichlerarchives.com /abuilder.html (2997 words)

	Aaron Green Associates - Project: "The Highlands" Eichler Development
		Aaron Green was retained by Joseph Eichler to prepare a Master Plan for a site in San Mateo to be identified as “The Highlands.” Eichler was a renowned developer and builder of communities of moderate-cost modern homes, whose design were largely inspired by his experience of living in a residence by Frank Lloyd Wright.
		As with “The Semicircle,” the residence was entered at the upper level, which contained living room, dining, and kitchen in an open plan arrangement; the bedrooms were located upon the lower level.
		Though Aaron Green’s development scheme was not executed, a client of Eichler’s came forward in 1962 and chose to build “The Sunspot” for his family in Palo Alto.
	www.agaarchitects.com /pages/residential/single_family/res_eichler.html (600 words)

	The Surreal Suburb of Fairmeadows - Palo Alto, California
		This is "Fairmeadows," one of two Eichler Homes neighborhoods built in the 1950's in Palo Alto, and one of many in the area.
		For those who aren't familiar with Eichler Homes, "Eichlers" (as they're known locally) are mod-style tract houses built in the 1950's and 60's by developer Joseph Eichler.
		Eichler Homes, Inc. built nearly 11,000 single-family homes in California, as well as a few odd examples in other states.
	www.kevingardiner.com /fairmeadows.html (693 words)

	Recent Past Preservation Network
		Eichler (1900-1974) is best known for making modern architecture accessible to middle class homebuyers and for opening his developments to minority buyers at a time when housing discrimination was the rule.
		The center is built in the same spare post-and-beam style as the surrounding Eichler houses, and the center and houses share such signature architectural elements as narrow vertical wood siding, large areas of glazing held by narrow wood mullions and wide roof eaves with over-scaled, exposed rafters.
		The center is an integral part of the Eichler neighborhood, and is, according to Hess, "part of Eichler's vision of suburbia, which included community centers, libraries, stores and parks as well as housing." Now, after almost 50 years of continuous operation, Edgewood Shopping Center's future may be in jeopardy.
	www.recentpast.org /types/shopcenters/edgewood/index.html (648 words)

	Jetset - Designs for Modern Living: Hiding in Plain Sight: Dow Eichler
		Eichlers, they were called, and Leslie and Christopher Dow leased one as the latest in a long string of rentals, finding nothing better.
		Adding to their new-found enthusiasm was a tour of the Marciniks’ Eichler, un-remuddled, with a dizzying array of Mid-Century furnishings and accessories presenting the architecture in its best light.
		In the early '70s, builder Joseph Eichler had commissioned Claude Oakland to modify the original Jones and Emmons atrium models to appeal to the home-buyer fads of the time, one of which was walk-in closets.
	www.jetsetmodern.com /eichler.htm (1356 words)

	About Eichler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Joseph Eichler first built homes near Palo Alto around 1950, and they were so different from the conventional tract homes that he himself said that people "either loved 'em or hated 'em".
		Eichler lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright home for a while, and was inspired by Wright's work, and with architect Bob Anshen, built the first Eichlers in the Bay area in 1949.
		Eichler built more than 10,000 homes before his death in 1975, mostly near San Francisco, but also some small tracts in Thousand Oaks, the San Fernando Valley and Orange county.
	ourworld.cs.com /marciasheffield/about_eichler_homes.htm (184 words)

	Eichler Home Raoul and Baerbel Schuhmacher
		Eichler's vision and the house he built - so it seems - for us.
		Eichler and his work and impact, as well as the current Eichler real estate market in Northern and Southern California.
		While the neighborhood is dominated by Eichler homes, it is overall probably not as well preserved as some of neighborhoods in Palo Alto or Cupertino; yet in the past couple of years we have observed a lot of improvement work going on.
	home.earthlink.net /~raoulsch/rabae/sesame.htm (560 words)

	About Eichler Homes Realty
		Over the years, many new Eichler homeowners have greatly benefited from their association with Jerry and the service and counsel he has provided to them.
		Eichler dedicated his home-building business to the design and construction of architecturally acclaimed homes for the family of average means.
		Jerry is proud of the attention and interest his publications have brought, once again, to the work of Joseph Eichler.
	www.eichlerhomes.com /about.htm (261 words)

	Eichler Homes of Balboa Highlands - Joseph Eichler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Eichlers moved to San Francisco after their marriage so Joe could work as the chief financial officer of his wife's family wholesale butter and egg business where he worked for the next twenty years.
		When Eichler finally branched off into running his own business he soon became responsible for every aspect of Eichler Homes.
		Where other builders cut corners, simplified designs and avoided architects, Eichler hired advocates of the same Modern principles he believed in.
	www.lottaliving.com /balboahighlands/team_eichler.shtml (499 words)

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