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4 unusual facts about Joseph Eichler


Eichler

Joseph Eichler (1900–1974) was a residential real estate developer.

Joseph Eichler

The largest contiguous Eichler Homes development is 'The Highlands' in San Mateo, built between 1956 and 1964.

The Parr family home in the Pixar animated feature The Incredibles appears to be an Alexander home—another type of tract-home design similar to Eichlers.

Robert and Marjorie Rawlins

Having lived for two decades in a modernist "Eichler" house, they chose architect John Lautner to realise Joseph Eichler's notion of "bringing the outside in" on a waterfront plot 30 feet wide and 70 feet deep, hemmed in by other houses.



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