Northumberland Avenue & Cypress Street · 1954 · The last tract

Then he stopped subdividing here.

Sequoia Meadow is the youngest of the three tracts and the smallest in floor area. After 1954, Eichler's attention went to San Mateo Highlands, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. He put up nothing else in Redwood City until 1956, when he came back for the Roble Avenue duplexes — ten leased units, and no more houses for sale.

The character of the streets

Small plans, long elevations.

We have no commissioned photography inside Sequoia Meadow yet. These are Redwood City streetscapes from our own camera, virtually altered, and not identified with any address — they show the vocabulary, not a specific house.

A long single-storey mid-century elevation in white vertical siding, under a bare street tree. — The long elevationAt 1,110 square feet the plan runs sideways rather than backVirtually altered

A mid-century house with a flat roof, wide fascia and a wood-panelled front door beside a white garage. — Door as the eventOne warm panel in an otherwise flat elevationVirtually altered

A dark-stained mid-century elevation behind agave and drought planting. — Planting doing the workDrought planting reads correctly against these houses. Lawn rarely doesVirtually altered

If you own on Northumberland or Cypress and would let us photograph properly, that is how this section stops being illustrative. How the archive works.

The 1,110 square foot house.

County records for Northumberland Avenue show 1954 builds under a subdivision recorded as "Sequoia Mdw." The predominant model is 1,110 square feet with three bedrooms; some run to around 1,400. One record we checked came in at exactly 1,110 square feet, which matches the published description closely enough to be worth something.

Small is the point rather than the problem. At 1,110 square feet an Eichler plan has to earn every foot, and the things that make the house work — the glass, the ceiling plane, the way the garden reads as another room — are doing more of the load-bearing than in a 2,000 square foot Palo Alto plan. These are also, straightforwardly, the most attainable entry into an Eichler on this side of the Peninsula.

As with Fairwood, we present the Eichler attribution here as attributed rather than established. One Northumberland record carries an MLS architectural style of "Contemporary, Eichler" and describes a mid-century Eichler home; another on the same street with the same 1954 date carries no Eichler reference at all.

Built: 1954
Streets: Northumberland Ave, Cypress St · 94061
County name: "Sequoia Mdw."
Predominant model: 1,110 sq ft, 3 bedroom
Larger models: ~1,400 sq ft
Homes: 23
Attribution: Attributed to Eichler Homes [verify]

Verified sale

$2,050,000

389 Northumberland Ave, 2 May 2024. 1,140 sq ft on a 6,011 sq ft lot — roughly $1,800 per square foot of house.

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