Santa Clara Eichler

Pomeroy West & Pomeroy Green Eichler

Santa Clara doesn’t have Eichler single-family homes but does have two of his townhouse developments, at the corner of Benton and Pomeroy. There’s a co-op called Pomeroy Green with 4-bedroom/2.5-bath two-story townhouses. Apparently the co-op status makes finding a lender a challenge. Next door is a conventional townhouse development, Pomeroy West, also with a 4/2.5 of 1476 but also offering very unusual one-story atrium townhomes. The contemporary scene in Santa Clara is very much about the same. John Mackay who left his mark on South Palo Alto, built so many contemporaries here in 1954 and 1955—over 900—that his name is local shorthand for “contemporary”, much as “Eichler” is further north.