Architecture
The buildings most representative of Professorville are brown-shingled houses with gambrel roofs, whose stylistic influences range from Colonial Revival to American Craftsman. Dutch Colonials are the predominant architecture on three blocks of Kingsley Avenue.
One of the largest residences, a 3-story, 14-room frame house at 450 Kingsley, is the former home of Stanford's first physics professor, Fernando Sanford designed by architect Frank McMurray of Chicago. The house includes features fashionable at the time such as a Queen Anne corner tower and a Palladian window in front. Other former professors' houses include 1005 Bryant, built for professor Frank Angell who founded the university's psychology department, and 433 Melville, built for professor Charles Henry Gilbert, founding chair of the Zoology Department, and designed by Professor A. B. Clark, an architect and art professor.
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