Attractive Lynn Homes

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

Lynn Homes on Nicol Avenue

Eight charming five-room homes of Spanish and Mission architecture were built by Willis F. Lynn on Nicol Avenue. Five of the houses were sold before they were completed. The last three went on sale on June 14, 1925.

Each house has:

Breakfast room or nook
Dining room with built-in buffet
laundry room
Hardwood floors throughout
Automatic water heaters
Separate garage

Priced at $5950.00 in 1925.

MapsNicole Avenue today – Google maps

**2639 Nicol Avenue – today Google Maps**

Lynn Homes on Best Avenue

Another group of homes went on sale on November 15, 1925. Located on Best Avenue between Brookdale and Trask. The houses have an attractive and varied style of architecture.

Each of the homes has six-rooms, a garage, and a laundry room.

Large living room windows
Large convertible breakfast rooms
Wards heating system and Trojan water heaters
Bathrooms with tile floors
Base plugs throughout the house
Lawns and shrubs and fences

Priced at $6950.00 each in 1925

**2506 Best Avenue today – Google maps**

**2495 Best Avenue today – Google Maps**

Two Beautiful Lakeshore Highlands Homes

Lynn also built two homes in the Lakeshore Highlands (Trestle Glen) neighborhood. One at 983 Longridge Road and the other at 957 Sunnyhills Road.

983 Longridge Road

Immense living room
Social Hall with cheerful fireplace
Large dining room
Master bedroom with sleeping porches and dressing room
Maid’s room
Radio wiring to the living room

Priced at $30,000 in 1928

**983 Longridge Road today – Google maps**

957 Sunnyhills Road

Large living room
Breakfast room with built-in cabinets
3 bedrooms with porches
3 bathrooms
Maid’s room
Full basement

Priced at $18,500 in 1928

Another home

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Allendale Terrace

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

Allendale Terrace is a group of twenty-seven homes built east of High Street on Allendale Avenue. They were built and sold by K.A. Johnson.

Fifteen homes were ready for inspection in 1930. The area is most likely is considered Maxwell Park.

Twenty -seven unusually beautiful English designed homes. Five, six, and seven rooms, basements, furnaces, water heaters, and laundry rooms. Close to new schools.

All basements are sufficiently large to provide space for a social hall. The five-room homes can be converted to six-room homes by completing another room upstairs, the stairways are already built.

The homes of Allendale Terrace

**4722 Allendale Ave** Today – Google Maps

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Central Terrace – 55th and Foothill

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Dorothy Londagin

It is located where Foothill Blvd meets Trask Street and 55th Avenue. 55th Avenue was formally called Central Avenue, and Foothill Blvd was often referred to as the Scenic Boulevard. Central Terrace also includes Ruth Avenue, Laverne Avenue, El Camille Avenue, and Kingsland Avenue. The area now is considered to be an extension of Maxwell Park or the Fairfax District, depending on who you talk to.

Mutual Realty Co.’s Central Terrace office,
Foothill Boulevard at 55th Avenue and Trask Street looking north
Cheney Photo Adv. Co., photographers. C 1912
Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room.

Brochure for Central Terrace

The Mutual Realty Company put the Central Terrace Subdivision on sale in April of 1912. The agent was Fred T. Wood, who later took over the project. Then they added the Central Terrace Extension and Scenic Park Knoll

Earth Sciences and Map Library,
The University of California, Berkeley -Cadastral map. Historic Maps of Bay Area

“Central Terrace is surrounded by modern schools and educational institutions of the very highest standard, the John C. Fremont high erected at the cost of $140,000, the Melrose School, the W.P. Frick School and the Lockwood Grammar School and the famous Mills Seminary for young ladies, all are within short walking distance from any part of Central Terrace”

See brochure below