Redwood City
1417 & 1425 Middlefield
Location
Redwood City
Scope
Remodel
Architect
Greenberg
Builder
Greenberg
THE BRIEF
Middlefield Road in Redwood City is one lot with two buildings. The Granger House at 1417 was built around 1883 and is one of the neighborhood's best examples of the Italianate style. It came to us as a single dwelling and had to leave as two units, without losing the building the street recognises. The restoration was completed in 2025. A second, new building at 1425 sits on the same lot and holds three further units.
THE DESIGN
The house was lifted to open a half basement beneath it, which is the move its own builders made in 1883: the raised floor plate gave the owners stature and kept the water out of a marshy lot. Every new floor follows the original structure. On the same lot a second building went up new, so the property now reads as two houses a century and a half apart. The new building at 1425 was completed in 2025. Its central design challenge was fitting three units onto the property using the ADU provisions, with limited room for parking, and the plan brought those requirements together in a single design and construction effort.
