Villa Montalvo, Montalvo Road, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, CA

Significance: Villa Montalvo was built in 1912-1914 in the style of a sixteenth century Italian villa from the designs of the noted San Francisco architects Curlett and Gottschalk, and was formally landscaped by the Bay area's most renowned landscape architect, John McLaren. Villa Montalvo was originally the home of one of the region's greatest philanthropists, James Duval Phelan, one time Mayor of San Francisco and U.S. Senator. Phelan played host to dozens of notables in the political and art worlds at the estate, which remains one of the most visually impressive residential complexes in Santa Clara County.
Survey number: HABS CA-2048
Building/structure dates: 1914 Initial Construction