Martha Lynn Tank House, 12899 Viscano Place, Los Altos Hills, Santa Clara County, CA

Significance: The Martha Lyyn Tank House, erected circa 1906, is a good example of the wooden tank house in Santa Clara County. Before modern irrigation canals and pumping stations, pressurized spring water was stored in structures like this tank house and used in irrigation. This wooden tank house with a cantilevered belvedere is one of the few remaining tank houses in the Santa Clara Valley. The square wooden tank house is three stories and trimmed at the top level with a latticed loggia. It is a good example of a building type commonplace throughout Santa Clara County during the second half of the 19th century, but rapidly becoming obsolete today. Most recently, the tank house has been converted to restrooms on the golf course of the Fremont Hills Country Club.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-112
Survey number: HABS CA-2066
Building/structure dates: ca. 1906 Initial Construction