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• Title: Sunset Headquarters, 80 Willow Road, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, CA
• Other Title: Sunset Magazine Headquarters
  South Willow
• Creator(s): Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Church, Thomas Dolliver
     Sunset Publishing Company
     May, Cliff
     Sunset Magazine
     Embarcadero Capital Partners
     Southern Pacific Company
     Lane, Laurence
     Sunset
     Lane Publishing Company
     Richardson, Lou
     Callahan, Genevieve A.
     Lane, Ruth
     Lane, William
     Lane, Melvin
     Time Warner Inc.
     Arguello, Don Jose
     Rancho de las Pulgas
     Higgins and Root
     Jacobson, Chris
     Sarjeant, Beverly
     Benzel, Kathleen
     Tom Richman and Associates
     Gracyk, Janet , historian
     Pattillo, Chris , historian
     Johnson, Jill , historian
     Stevens, Chris , transmitter
     Raube, Sarah , delineator
     Gracyk, Janet , delineator
     Rodriguez, Lorena Garcia , delineator
     Bantle, Genny , delineator
     Pattillo, Chris , delineator
     Osmundson, Gordon , photographer
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 2000
• Medium: Photo(s): 20
  Measured Drawing(s): 3
  Data Page(s): 29
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HALS CA-115
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • 1st Place Winner - 2015 HALS Challenge: Documenting Modernist Landscapes
  • Significance: The property is closely associated with the influential landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church; Church designed the landscape for the headquarters and his residential designs were featured in Sunset Publishing’s magazines and books. The property also features a Cliff May building; May was an influential proponent of a one-story, light-filled, indoor-outdoor open design and he is credited with creating the informal Ranch Style in the 1930s. Thousands of visitors toured the property and it is regularly featured in the magazine. Sunset Headquarters was strongly associated with an emerging identity of suburban westerners in the United States as a distinct population embracing modern design, outdoor living, gardening, cooking and travel during the expansive post-WWII era. Mainstream modern residences built on the periphery of large urban areas changed significantly during this period, from the high-design styles of the Case Study houses to the simpler expressions found in subdivisions designed by Joseph Eichler, as well as more anonymous suburbs. Sunset magazine promoted design coupled with comfort and convenience and targeted upwardly-mobile suburbanites. Design ideas, materials, and methods promoted by the magazine influenced popular culture due to the popularity of the magazine and the company's books.
  • Survey number: HALS CA-115
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1951 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1953 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1964 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1973 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 2000 Subsequent Work
• Subjects:
  • gardens
  • Modern architectural elements
  • campus - Modern
  • Modern Plaza gardens
  • gardens - Modernist
  • ranch houses
  • Spanish Colonial Revival architectural elements
  • plastered adobe
  • outdoor furniture
  • travel
  • ells
  • patios
  • wings (building divisions)
  • courtyards
  • fences
  • split-rail fences
  • lawns
  • trees
  • linden trees
  • shrubs
  • sidewalks
  • flagstone
  • desert gardens
  • plant containers
  • plants
  • garden walls
  • gardeners
  • publishing industry
  • Periodicals
• Place:
  • California -- San Mateo County -- Menlo Park
• Latitude/Longitude: 37.453641, -122.16386
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HALS CA-115
• Medium: Photo(s): 20
  Measured Drawing(s): 3
  Data Page(s): 29
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2

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• Medium: Photo(s): 20
  Measured Drawing(s): 3
  Data Page(s): 29
  Photo Caption Page(s): 2

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