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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.

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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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