Its developer, Alexander Gordon, first called the tract Palo Alto, then renamed it College Terrace at Leland Stanford’s request. It was annexed to Mayfield in 1891 and came into Palo Alto with Mayfield in 1925.
The cross streets are named Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Wellesley, Williams and Yale, and the neighbourhood has a branch library built in 1936.