Menlo Park

Menlo Park Apr 1974

555 Ravenswood Ave. at the corner of Laurel St. in Menlo Park, occupied in 2025 by the Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid-Peninsula. Detail of window extending into shingled mansard roof on former gatehouse, showing 1968 shingle renovation. Barron-Latham-Hopkins Gatehouse, built 1864, modified in 1897 and 1906, with extensive renovation 1996-1997. Originally at entry of huge estate that its second owner Milton Slocum Latham dubbed "Thurlow Lodge" in 1871. Renamed "Sherwood Hall" by its new owner, Mary Francis Sherwood Hopkins, widow of tycoon Mark Hopkins. It is the oldest building in Menlo Park. [details - window, Ravens MP]

Judith Lynch (Courtesy of Victorian Alliance)

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