It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. Though not open for public tours, the property can be viewed from the sidewalk and driveway. The garage has since been designated a California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 367 Addison Ave Directions {{::location.tagLine.value.text}} Sponsored Topics. In the 1930s, Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in the area instead of leaving California, and develop a high-tech region. In 1939, Packard and Hewlett formed their partnership with a coin toss, creating the name Hewlett-Packard. The interior of the garage was arranged as it was when used by William Hewlett and David Packard. Mrs. Spencer, now widowed, moved into the second-floor apartment, 369 Addison. The name changed in 2011 to "First Tech Federal Credit Union" after a merger with, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, "National Register Information System – Hewlett--Packard House and Garage (#07000307)", "HP Virtual Museum: Model 200B audio oscillator, 1939", "Shrine to Hours of Tinkering in a Garage on the Ground Floor of Silicon Valley", Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, History of the National Register of Historic Places, National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HP_Garage&oldid=987537337, History of Santa Clara County, California, Buildings and structures in Palo Alto, California, Tourist attractions in Santa Clara County, California, National Register of Historic Places in Santa Clara County, California, Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in California, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 November 2020, at 18:08. These photos were taken shortly after Hewlett Packard restored 367 Addison Avenue, known as The Birthplace of Silicon Valley. It won't take long to visit but fun to get a glimpse of "the garage" and see where it all started. Dr. Spencer became Palo Alto's first mayor in 1909. In 1938, newly married Dave and Lucile Packard moved into 367 Addison Ave, the first-floor three-room apartment, with Bill Hewlett sleeping in the shed. The simple one car garage became the HP workshop and the little shack out back became Bill Hewlett's home. View more property details, sales history and Zestimate data on Zillow. Always interesting to visit the humble garage a metaphor for creation (innovation) and destruction (disruption). [3] It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley". Hewlett-Packard's first product, built in the garage, was an audio oscillator, the HP200A. Located in a residential area in Palo Alto, California, near Stanford University, HP Garage is almost hard to find without using web-based maps. [8] One of Hewlett-Packard's first customers was Walt Disney Studios,[9] which purchased eight oscillators to test and certify the sound systems in theaters that were going to run the first major film released in stereophonic sound, Fantasia. 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