Editing Palo Alto, California (section)

==Notable buildings and other points of interest==
=== Historical buildings and architecture ===
[[File:HP_Garage_in_Silicon_Valley.jpg|thumb|[[Packard's garage]]]]
* [[Frenchman's Tower]] was built in 1876<ref name="frenchmans_tower">{{Citation|last=Cady|first=Theron G.|title=The Legend of Frenchmen's Tower|url=http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanmateo/history/smcady_m.htm|year=1948|location=Peninsula Life Magazine|publisher=C-T Publishers, San Carlos, California|access-date=August 10, 2011|archive-date=May 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524232701/http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanmateo/history/smcady_m.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Former Palo Alto Community House, at the intersection of University Avenue and [[El Camino Real (California)|El Camino Real]]; designed by [[Julia Morgan]] as the [[YWCA]] Hostess House but first used as a social centre in [[Camp Fremont]] during World War I; now a restaurant, MacArthur Park.
* Lou Henry Hoover Girl Scout House, "the oldest scout meeting house remaining in continuous use in the United States".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.girlscoutsofpaloalto.org/|title=Palo Alto Girl Scouts|website=Girlscoutsofpaloalto.org}}</ref>
* [[Packard's garage]] where the company [[Hewlett-Packard]] was started in 1939.
* [[Printers Inc. Bookstore]], now defunct, was a landmark [[independent bookstore]] on California Ave. and was referenced in [[Vikram Seth]]'s novel, ''[[The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth novel)|The Golden Gate]].'' It closed in 2001.
* [[Ramona Street Architectural District]] one block of downtown office buildings and restaurants designed and built by [[Pedro Joseph de Lemos]]
* [[St. Thomas Aquinas Church (Palo Alto, California)|Saint Thomas Aquinas Church]] is the oldest church in Palo Alto.
* [[Woman's Club of Palo Alto]] was built in 1916 in a Tudor-Craftsman style, listed in 2014 in the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Clara County, California|National Register of Historic Places]].

=== Nature and hiking ===
[[File:Esther Clark Park oak tree with beer cans.jpg|thumb|Oak tree at Esther Clark Park in Palo Alto]]
* [[Arastradero Preserve]]
* Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden, public [[botanical garden]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamblegarden.org/|title=Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden|last=Reckers|first=Ed|website=Gamblegarden.org}}</ref>
* Esther Clark Park, a small open oak/grassland park connecting to Los Altos Hills
* [[Foothills Nature Preserve]]
* [[Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve]]

=== Museums, art, and entertainment ===
 [[File:Palo_Alto_Art_Center_-_February_2019.jpg|thumb|The entrance to the [[Palo Alto Art Center]]]]
* [[Palo Alto Art Center]]
* [[Pacific Art League]]
* [[Stanford Shopping Center]]
* University Avenue (Downtown Palo Alto)
* Palo Alto Children's Theatre
* Palo Alto Players
* [[Stanford Theatre]]
* [[Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo]]
* [[The Foster Museum]]
* Winter Lodge Ice Skating Rink