1 1916 - The Palo Alto Woman’s Club builds its hall.
2 1901 - St. Thomas Aquinas church, a carpenter Gothic design, completed. In 1971, the church features in the movie, “Harold and Maude”.
3 1907 - Thomas Williams, physician, builds his home and office, now the Museum of American Heritage.
4 2004 - Heritage Park established. Along with the Palo Alto History Museum, it will provide a focus for this historic area.
5 1932 - A group of Palo Alto physicians engage architect Birge Clark to design Palo Alto Medical Clinic in Spanish Eclectic style. Now called the Roth Building and owned by the city, it will become the Palo Alto History Museum.
6 1938 - William Hewlett and David Packard form Hewlett-Packard Company and launch Silicon Valley
in the legendary garage.
7 1971 - The Downtown Library opens.
8 1931 - The Cardinal French Laundry, now renovated,
is part of Palo Alto’s historic laundry district.
9 1925 - AME Zion church, recently restored, and the Japanese-American neighborhood center mark early Palo Alto’s diversity.
10 1905-1928 - Palo Alto’s commercial service area expands. Now renovated original businesses were Cashel Plumbing, Thompson’s Bakery, City of Paris Dyeing and Cleaning Works.
11 1912 - Site of Lee de Forest’s invention of the vacuum tube amplifier and oscillator at 913 Emerson Street.
12 1890 - Site of early resident Anna Zschokke’s first house at 170 Homer Ave. The "mother of Palo Alto schools," she advocated successfully for a public school district and mortgaged her next house to open the first high school.
13 1930 - Site of former Family Service Laundry, part of Palo Alto’s historic laundry district. Eligible for the state Register of Historic Places, it was demolished in 2004.
14 1929 - Violet Ray Gasoline at the stylish Pringle Service Station, sole survivor of Palo Alto’s original gas stations and now serving as Palo Alto Bimmer.