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Eight streets · one ninth we will not print

Where the hundred are.

Eight street names recur across the sources. We have confirmed all eight exist in Burlingame, and confirmed individual Eichler addresses on three of them. What nobody has published is which parcels on each street are Eichlers and which are not — so this is a street list, not a survey.

Confirmed Eichler addresses

Six specific houses we could verify individually: 7 and 8 Mariposa Court, 1775 and 1842 Hunt Drive, 2919 and 2999 Frontera Way. Every other street below is named by the sources but not confirmed house by house.

A brown board-and-batten Eichler in Burlingame, with a shed roof rising to the left, a glazed clerestory under the beams, a recessed glazed entry and a two-car garage.
Shed and clerestory, warmer. The same shed-and-clerestory idea in a warmer register, with the glazing at the entry pulled down to the ground so the front door sits in light. The roof lifts left rather than right — these plans were handed to suit the lot, which on a hillside subdivision matters more than it would on a flat one.
A taupe Eichler in Burlingame with a shed roof lifting to the right under a clerestory band, a deep overhang, a recessed timber front door and a large crape myrtle in the front garden.
Sixty years of tree. The house is the shed-and-clerestory type again, but the point here is the planting: a crape myrtle this size is not landscaping, it is the age of the neighbourhood made visible. Mills Estate went up in 1964–65 and the gardens have had every year since.
Schematic of the Mills Estate Eichler streets, Burlingame A schematic diagram, not a survey. Eight streets are named in the sources as carrying Eichler homes in the Mills Estate tract: Frontera Way, Dolores Way, Capistrano Way, Mariposa Drive, Mariposa Court, Atwater Drive, Alcazar Drive and Hunt Drive. Mariposa Drive and Mariposa Court are described as the only two streets built entirely of Eichlers. The tract sits on the ridge above Trousdale Drive with San Francisco Bay to the east and Interstate 280 above to the west. NORTH IS APPROXIMATE RISING GROUND — INTERSTATE 280 ABOVE TROUSDALE DRIVE — FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY DOWN THE HILL ALCAZAR DR ATWATER DR HUNT DR MARIPOSA DR ALL EICHLER MARIPOSA CT ALL EICHLER NO. 8 — HARSCHEL CAPISTRANO WAY DOLORES WAY FRONTERA WAY SAN FRANCISCO BAY — THE VIEW
SCHEMATIC, NOT A SURVEY. THE EIGHT STREET NAMES ARE AS THE SOURCES GIVE THEM; THE BLOCKS SHOW GROUPING AND APPROXIMATE RELATION TO THE RIDGE AND THE BAY, NOT LOT LINES, BLOCK SHAPES OR A RECORDED TRACT BOUNDARY. NO PUBLISHED SOURCE GIVES A DEFINED BOUNDARY FOR THE EICHLER PORTION OF MILLS ESTATE, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO INVENT ONE. MARIPOSA DRIVE AND MARIPOSA COURT ARE MARKED BECAUSE SOURCES DESCRIBE THEM AS THE ONLY TWO STREETS BUILT ENTIRELY OF EICHLERS — A CLAIM WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO VERIFY PARCEL BY PARCEL.

The eight.

StreetWhat the sources sayOur confidence
Mariposa DriveNamed in every source. Said to be entirely Eichler.High on the street; the “entirely” claim is unverified
Mariposa CourtSaid to be entirely Eichler. Numbers 7 and 8 confirmed individually — 8 is the Harschel house. High. Two addresses verified
Hunt Drive1775 and 1842 confirmed as Eichlers. 1775 is the largest house we have verified in the tract at 2,440 sq ft. High. Two addresses verified
Frontera Way2919 and 2999 confirmed. 2999 has a documented 428 sq ft atrium.High. Two addresses verified
Alcazar DriveNamed in the sources. Exists in Burlingame. Medium. No individual Eichler confirmed
Atwater DriveNamed in the sources. Exists in Burlingame. Medium. No individual Eichler confirmed
Capistrano WayNamed in the sources. Exists in Burlingame. Medium. No individual Eichler confirmed
Dolores WayNamed in the sources. Exists in Burlingame. Medium. No individual Eichler confirmed
Montecito Way Appears in one source, which also files this tract under the wrong neighbourhood name and carries two plan numbers we could find nowhere else. Not printed as an Eichler street. Why →

The Spanish street names — Alcazar, Capistrano, Dolores, Frontera, Mariposa — are Trousdale's, not Eichler's. They were set when the estate was subdivided in 1954, nine years before Eichler bought lots in it. The land before the Eichlers →

Reading a street here

Eichler and non-Eichler sit next to each other on most of these roads.

Because Eichler bought lots inside an existing subdivision rather than laying out his own, Mills Estate is not a solid block of Eichlers the way Greenmeadow or Fairglen are. Except possibly on the two Mariposa streets, an Eichler here has conventional 1950s hillside houses as neighbours.

That is worth knowing before you drive it. You are not looking for a neighbourhood that reads as Eichler from the corner. You are looking for individual houses inside a conventional street.

It also means the count problem is real. Nobody can tell you how many of the houses on Alcazar or Dolores are Eichlers, because nobody has published a parcel-level list. “About a hundred” across eight streets averages twelve or thirteen a street — but if the two Mariposas really are entirely Eichler, the distribution is nothing like even.

How to tell one from its neighbour →

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Which houses on your street are Eichlers?

If you live on one of the eight and can tell us which numbers are and are not, you would be adding something no published source contains. We will credit the street, not you, unless you want otherwise.