San Mateo Park in California - Presented by Ed Stephens

Описание: One of this country’s best kept secrets, San Mateo Park, is one of the most beautiful and unique residential communities within The United states. While known within its’ immediate vicinity, San Mateo park remains virtually unknown to the outside world, a secluded enclave, vigilant against the encroachment of progress and change.

San Mateo Park is located on the San Francisco Peninsula, 20 miles south of San Francisco, adjacent to the towns of Hillsborough and Burlingame, and within a short commute to Silicon Valley, and Biotech companies.

San Mateo Park was originally a part of the Mexican Land Grant, Rancho San Mateo. In the late 19th century, San Mateo Park was a dairy land cattle ranch owned by the Clark family, remembered by spectacular gateway to San Mateo Park, Clark Drive.

San Mateo Park was founded in 1896, when the City Beautiful movement was at its’ peak. Noted architect George Howard Jr. teamed with Landscape architect, John McLaren, the designer of Golden Park, E. W. McClellan, the founder of McClellan’s nursery, and City Planner Davenport Bromfield, the Planner for such communities as Carmel California, to create a residential community that would stand out as one of the foremost tributes to residential design excellence.

Together, this stellar team laid out the narrow, gently winding streets with every intersection meeting at a landscaped circle, crescent, or square, with most streets also having wide landscaped medians Thousands and thousands of trees, selected by McLaren and Mclellan, and many transplanted from the San Francisco World Fair, were planted on the formerly barren landscaped. Noted architects, Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, and Julia Morgan designed magnificent country homes, many in the arts and crafts style, most now restored to their former glory. 120 years later, The Park, as San Mateo Park is called by its’ residents and admirers has achieved and faithfully secured the vision of its’ illustrious founders and architects. The now tree canopied roads that meander through the gently rolling foothills, and the now lush circles, crescents and squares are sheltered beneath towering Palms, Pines, oaks, and among many other trees from around the world.

Once within San Mateo Park, the bustling outside world is non-existent, as one is enveloped in a bucolic, private environment of un-president Beauty and charm.