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Maison Normandie – Piedmont Pines

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Unique Home Opens

Oakland Tribune June 09, 1940

Open to the public (again) in June of 1940, “Maison Normandie” represented France’s famous Normandy style of architecture, both exterior and interior. The house is located on a large corner lot high up in the hills of Oakland.

The large living room with a large window affords a view of the Golden Gate, the bridges, and Treasure Island. Double french doors open onto a large tiled terrace in the rear with a built-in barbecue.

Oakland Tribune 1940

It cost more than $20,000 to build and was advertised at $16,500.

Three bedrooms, two tiled baths, and a maid’s room with a bathroom. The large basement with laundry room and large storage closets. Two doors gave access to both the front and rear of the house, and a short passageway that leads into the two-car garage with a large area suitable as a workshop.

  • Maison Normandie
  • Le Mon Park – Piedmont Pines
  • 1938
  • Mitchell & Austin
  • Still there
  • 6235 Castle Drive

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6235 Castle Drive – Google Maps

For Sale

1952

Oakland Tribune Apr 06, 1952

$7000 in the wall-to-wall carpet.

Oakland Tribune April 11, 1954

Priced at $1,595,000

SF Examiner July 30, 2000

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In Le Mon Park – Piedmont Pines

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Oakland Tribune June 1937

“a thing of beauty and joy forever.”

Robert Mitchell Mitchell & Austin
Le Mon Park

Coronation House Opens

The “Coronation House,” a display home for Mitchell & Austin, opened on May 2, 1937, in the Le Mon Park section of Piedmont Pines.  It is located on Castle Drive.  The display home was furnished by Breuner’s with the Coronation theme (King George’s Coronation May 1937.)

Oakland Tribune May 2, 1937

“English architectural riches have been transplanted to Piedmont Pines in Coronation House”  the ad goes on the say ” Coronation House “fit for a king” in the beautiful Le Mon tract… the crowning achievement of the season”  

Oakland Tribune May 2, 1937
Oakland Tribune May 2, 1937

“this six-room home with three bedrooms and a bath, with gorgeous living room and un-impaired view, delightful recreation room and kitchen.”

Oakland Tribune May 1937

“the coronation motif is carried out throughout, the crown drapes furnishing a fitting background for pieces following the English provincial motif ”

Oakland Tribune May 1937

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6301 Castle Drive – Google Maps
  • Coronation House
  • Early Colonial
  • 6301 Castle Drive
  • Le Mon Park – Piedmont Pines
  • 1937
  • Mitchell & Austin Real Estate
  • Still there

Fremont House

When General John C. Fremont hiked to a vantage point in the vicinity of Piedmont Pines in time to the setting sun.

“That we shall call the Golden Gate.”

General Fremont – Oakland Tribune Aug 8, 1938
Oakland Tribune May 9, 1937

From the windows of Fremont House, you can see the Golden Gate.

  • Fremont House
  • Castle Drive
  • Style – Early California
  • Le Mon Park – Piedmont Pines
  • 1937
  • Mitchell & Austin
  • Need Location

“See the world from Piedmont Pines”

Sales Manager Mitchell Austin

Thousands of visitors passed through Fremont House and Coronation House and admired the attractive architecture and the natural advantages of the grounds on which they are located. Sweeping views of the bay, Mount Tamalpais, and both bridges could be seen from the windows of both homes.

Villidor – House of Gold

“Commanding a sweeping panorama of the bay and the hills, it offers magnificent views of sunrises and sunsets.”

Oakland Tribune Jun 20, 1937
Oakland Tribune June 27, 1937

Villador, the house of gold, opened to the public in June of 1937.

Oakland Tribune Aug 8, 1937
  • Villador
  • 6324 Castle Drive
  • Le Mon Park – Piedmont Pines
  • 1937
  • Mitchell & Austin
6324 Castle Drive – RDFin.com

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Style House in Piedmont Pines

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The Tribune Jackson Style House – 5737 Chelton Drive

Updated October 2022

The “Style House” opened to the public in April 1935. Over 1500 visitors passed through the home that first weekend.

Local architect Frederick L. Confer designed the home with James H. Anderson, and the builder was James Armstrong.

The agents for the house were Mitchell & Austin, with Harry Stockman as the agent in charge.

The Jackson Furniture Company entirely furnished the house.

The View Then and Now

Oakland Tribune March 31, 1935
The view now

Award-Winning

The house is a modified Regency-type design. And it won an award for the distinguished “house of seven rooms or less” in the fourth Biennial Exhibition of American Architects. The house has also been called Monterey Style. Color is used abundantly throughout the house. The exterior is painted white with mustard color shutters.

Oakland Tribune July 14, 1935

The Style House was built amongst the pine trees on a site with an inspiring view of the bay. A prize-winner at a recent exhibition in San Francisco by the American Institute of Architecture, the “Style House with its novel Regency architecture,…remains one of the outstanding demonstration in the history of Eastbay real estate.”

Oakland Tribune August 25, 1935

Unique Home and Cozy Interior

The living room with a vaulted ceiling has French doors to the delightful front patio and the rear deck with SF and Bay views.

Oakland Tribune 1935

The floor plan has a full bath and generous bedroom on the main level with French doors to the patio. There are two more large rooms, one with a deck to enjoy the views! The lower features a bedroom, ideal for a family/rumpus room, a half bath, a generous laundry/craft room with work station, and a storage area—a two-car garage.

Oakland Tribune March 31, 1935

On opening day, a local Ford Dealer had a brand new Ford V8 parked outside the house.

Oakland Tribune March 31, 1935
Oakland Tribune March 31, 1935

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Le Mon Park Section of Piedmont Pines

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The name Le Mon Park comes from R.F.D. Le Mon, a New York capitalist, who made his home there after purchasing a large amount of land to develop and build beautiful residences. 

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Taken from Le Mon Park for the Oakland Tribune Year Book 1938

Trip to Oakland

In 1935 R.F.D. Le Mon (Lemon), a retired Capitalist from New York, came to Oakland searching for real estate to develop and build fine homes. He found the perfect site high up in the Oakland hills with a magnificent panorama of Oakland, the bay, and beyond. He called it Le Mon Park. 

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Oakland Tribune June 20, 1937

Le Mon purchased 60 acres of panoramic view property in the heart of Piedmont Pines on Castle Drive and Cornwall Court.

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” With an elevation ranging from 1300 to 1400 feet, Le Mon Park in Piedmont Pines commands a view of which its residents can never be deprived.”

Oakland Tribune July 18, 1937
Oakland Tribune

“it’s only a 15-minute drive to the center of things.”

Oakland Tribune
Oakland Tribune June 1937

 

I’ll take it.

In a 1937 interview, Le Mon recalls his trip to Oakland.

“I was rambling through the pine clad hills,” Le Mon relates when I came across a residence in the course of construction and occupying a magnificent site and commanding view on Ascot Court. In the spur of the moment, he said, “I’ll take it,”

Oakland Tribune Jun 20, 1937

The Model Homes

  • Coronation House – 1937
  • Villadora – The House of Gold – 1937
  • Fremont House – 1937
  • Penthouse – 1938
  • Weybridge Gables – 1938
  • Chateau Longue-Vue – 1939
  • Maison Normandie – 1940

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