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Campbell Community Center Neighborhood Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide
The streets between Hamilton Ave and W. Campbell Ave west of Winchester Blvd, built around the 1930s Campbell High School campus that is now the city's community center, pool and theater.
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Calculated in your browser from MLS data for Campbell Community Center: Hamilton Ave to W. Campbell Ave, west of Winchester Blvd (approximate). Sales are single-family homes, townhomes and condos.
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Homes for sale, for rent and recently sold in Campbell Community Center
Every active listing, rental and closed sale in Campbell Community Center from the MLS, updated automatically, with a map of the neighborhood outline.
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Listings come from MLSListings and other MLSs through IDX and show their listing brokerage; confirm details with the listing agent. The map outline is the neighborhood boundary used by our listing search (Campbell Community Center: Hamilton Ave to W. Campbell Ave, west of Winchester Blvd (approximate)); it may not match every local definition.
the story
How Campbell Community Center came to be
The anchor here is the old high school. Residents of the Campbell, Cambrian, Hamilton and San Tomas school districts formed the Campbell Union High School District in 1900, and classes began on September 14, 1900, with 35 students in space shared with the grammar school. A first high school building went up in 1904 on the southeast corner of Winchester Blvd and Campbell Ave. In 1936 the district started a new campus on the northwest corner, designed by architect William H. Weeks: the east wing came first, and by 1938 the two-story main building, auditorium and gym were finished in Spanish Colonial Revival style, with exterior tile by Albert Solon. Federal WPA crews built the track bleachers in 1939-40.
Campbell High closed in 1980. The city bought the campus from the high school district in August 1985, mainly to keep its open space and fields, and dedicated it as the Campbell Community Center that September. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the Campbell Union High School Historic District. The coast redwood at the corner of Winchester and Campbell has a presidential back story: Theodore Roosevelt planted a redwood at the original high school on May 11, 1903, that tree came down in 1964 when Winchester Blvd was widened, and a burl from it was planted on the campus.
The houses came in waves. The city's historic context statement says building moved west along W. Campbell and Latimer avenues in the 1920s. Recorded tract maps then show the Hedegard Subdivision (1939), the Rees Subdivision (1940) and the Bland Tract (1942), followed by postwar tracts: Campus View (1947), Latimer Manor and the Lovejoy Tract (1948), Crystal Manor (1949), Sunberry Gardens (1953), Llewellyn Park (1954) and the Lawndale Subdivision (1957). In the mid-1950s the Campbell Shopping Center opened on Winchester Blvd at Latimer Ave, part of the shift of shopping away from downtown. The eastern blocks were inside the original 1952 city; city parcel records show the blocks near San Tomas Expressway were annexed piece by piece from 1954 into the early 1970s.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
The street plan is simple: long east-west streets such as W. Latimer Ave and Hedegard Ave crossed by short north-south blocks like Carlyn, Hardy, Bland and N. Milton avenues, with circles and courts tucked behind them. Sunberry Gardens added Sunberry Dr, Kamson Way and Rex and Ken circles in 1953, and a 1963 tract added Kings and Queens courts off Llewellyn Ave. City parcel data counts about 400 single-family houses with a median build year of 1954; most went up between 1945 and 1965, about two-thirds are single-story, and lots run larger than downtown's, with a median near 7,800 sq ft.
Later layers fill the gaps. The Fairmeadow tract (1972) has about 100 townhouses on Latimer Cir and Dreamland Way. A 1999 tract added about 40 houses on Apple Blossom, Cherry Blossom and Plum Blossom lanes, smaller infill followed on Llewellyn Ave (2006) and Maravilla Ct (2009), and a tract recorded in 2025 brings streets named Boxcar Dr, Caboose Ln and Wagon Way. Zoning is mostly R-1-6 single-family, with planned-development and medium-density pockets, and commercial frontage on Winchester Blvd and Hamilton Ave. Parcels facing Winchester fall under the city's Winchester Boulevard Master Plan.
streets in campbell community center
- W. Latimer Ave
- Hedegard Ave
- Llewellyn Ave
- Carlyn Ave
- Hardy Ave
- Bland Ave
- N. Milton Ave
- Sunberry Dr
- Dunster Dr
- Lawndale Ave
- Kamson Way
- Latimer Cir
- Dreamland Way
- Apple Blossom Ln
- Cherry Blossom Ln
- Plum Blossom Ln
- Maravilla Ct
- W. Hamilton Ave
- W. Campbell Ave
- Winchester Blvd
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Campbell Community Center
- park
Campbell Community Center
A 29.5-acre city campus at 1 W. Campbell Ave with an all-weather track lit until 10 p.m., athletic fields, gyms, a skate park, meeting rooms and most of the city's recreation classes.
- pool
Community Center pool
Campbell's only public pool: eight heated outdoor lanes used for lap swim, lessons and water fitness.
- landmark
Heritage Theatre
The 1938 high school auditorium, renovated in 2004 into an 800-seat performing arts venue run by the city.
- park
John D. Morgan Park
Across W. Campbell Ave, about 0.6 mile (straight-line) from the middle of the neighborhood: two playgrounds, one of them all-inclusive, plus open fields and picnic areas.
- shopping
Downtown Campbell
Downtown's E. Campbell Ave strip starts across Winchester Blvd; Central Ave, the middle of the old business district, is about 0.7 mile (straight-line) away.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
City parcel records place this neighborhood in the Campbell Union School District (TK-8) and the Campbell Union High School District. Rosemary Elementary, a Campbell Union school at 401 W. Hamilton Ave, sits just across Hamilton Ave on the north edge, and the Campbell School of Innovation, the district's TK-8 campus on Cherry Ln, is about half a mile south. Attendance boundaries change, so check the exact address with the district before you count on a particular school.
Campbell Union guide · Campbell Union High guide · Silicon Valley school districts
Getting around
- VTA light rail: Downtown Campbell station is about 0.7 mile and Winchester station about 0.9 mile from the middle of the neighborhood (straight-line). Green Line trains run to San José Diridon station (Caltrain) and on to Santa Clara.
- San Tomas Expressway runs along the west edge; it starts at Highway 17 in Campbell and runs north through Santa Clara to US 101.
- Highway 17's Hamilton Ave interchange is about 1 mile east (straight-line).
- Los Gatos Creek Trail: the nearest main entrance is at Campbell Park on E. Campbell Ave, about 0.9 mile east (straight-line).
- W. Latimer Ave is the east-west collector through the middle; Winchester Blvd and Hamilton Ave carry the through traffic on the edges.
nerd notes
Buying or selling in Campbell Community Center: what we check
Buying here
- City parcel data flags about a third of the parcels here, mostly the western blocks toward San Tomas Expressway, for liquefaction potential. Read the natural hazard disclosure and ask about the foundation.
- Many houses are original 1940s and 50s single-story homes. Check the electrical panel, plumbing, roof age and the sewer lateral, and look for permits on any additions.
- Planning a second story or an ADU on a 7,000 to 9,000 sq ft lot? Check the R-1-6 setback, height and floor-area rules with the city planning division first.
- Homes backing onto San Tomas Expressway, Hamilton Ave or Winchester Blvd get more traffic noise; visit at rush hour.
- Townhouse buyers in the 1972 Fairmeadow tract or the newer tracts should read the HOA budget, reserve study and rules.
Selling here
- The walk to the Community Center's pool, track and theater, and to downtown, is a real selling point; put the distances in the listing.
- Buyers will compare an original house with the 1999-2025 infill nearby. Have permits finaled and documented for any remodel.
- If the lot can support an ADU, a simple site plan helps buyers picture it; don't promise approvals the city hasn't given.
- Disclose liquefaction-zone status up front; it shows in the parcel record and in the hazard report.
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faq
Campbell Community Center questions, answered
Is the Community Center open to the public?
Yes. It is a city park and recreation campus. The track is open from sunrise to 10 p.m., the skate park from noon to sunset, and the pool, gyms, classes and rooms run on city schedules.
Is this neighborhood in Campbell or San José?
Campbell. Every parcel in this outline is inside Campbell city limits and the 95008 ZIP. The San José blocks that share Campbell's ZIP are farther west, beyond San Tomas Aquino Creek.
How old are the houses?
Tract maps start in 1939, and city parcel data puts the median single-family house at 1954. There are newer pockets from 1999, 2006, 2009 and a tract recorded in 2025.
Is the old high school a historic landmark?
Yes. The campus is a city landmark and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as the Campbell Union High School Historic District. The surrounding houses are mostly not on the city's historic inventory.
Did Theodore Roosevelt really plant a tree here?
According to the city, he planted a coast redwood at the original high school on May 11, 1903. That tree was removed in 1964 to widen Winchester Blvd, and a burl from it was planted on the campus; the redwood at the corner carries a plaque.
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