| Palm Haven | |
| Settlement Type: | Neighborhood of San Jose |
| Pushpin Map: | United States San Jose |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within San Jose |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | California |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Santa Clara |
| Subdivision Type3: | City |
| Subdivision Name3: | San Jose |
| Coordinates: | 37.3157°N -121.8996°W |
Palm Haven is a historic residence park and neighborhood in the Willow Glen district of San Jose, California.
Established in 1913 on the edge of the city, Palm Haven was considered the quintessential "Residence Park".
Developers Eaton, Vestal, and Herschbach built Palm Haven with wide parkways planted with Mexican Fan Palms and Canary Island Date Palms at equal intervals. The entrances to the development were marked by large, Mission-Revival styled concrete pillars adorned with large urns, plants and electric lanterns.
A covered waiting station in the same Mission-Revival style was built on an island at the foot of the Palm Haven Avenue entrance for a Palm Haven stop on the Peninsular Railway.
The center of the neighborhood contains a plaza planted in a formal style creating sight lines and symmetry.
Common to Residence Parks, Palm Haven had a set of conditions, covenants and restrictions that controlled what was built, a minimum cost, property setbacks, and racial exclusions.
The neighborhood is largely intact today as its palm trees are now fully grown at approximately 100 feet tall. All the original trees from the 1913 planting are designated "Heritage Trees" by the City of San Jose and are the largest coordinated tree planting within city limits.
The neighborhood is a designated Historic Conservation Area in the City of San Jose.[1]
Many important figures in local history with regional and even national impacts lived in Palm Haven including: