Ray Park & Burlingame Village, Burlingame Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

Two small tracts from the early 1940s meet at the corner of El Camino Real, Ray Drive and Rosedale Avenue. County records put Ray Park and Burlingame Village in the same volume of recorded maps (volume 23), and the assessor dates the first houses in both to 1941. Burlingame Village, on the east side of El Camino, went up almost all at once: nearly every house there is from 1941 or 1942. Ray Park filled in more slowly, through the 1940s and into the 1950s.

That corner is also where the old tree rows stop. The Howard-Ralston elms and eucalyptus that John McLaren designed for El Camino Real in the 1870s once ran about 4 miles; the city says 2.2 miles survive, between Peninsula Avenue and Ray Drive/Rosedale Avenue, and they have been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2012. Mills Creek runs through here too. The city's history says the 1910 annexation of the Town of Easton carried Burlingame north to Mills Creek; land beyond it was part of the Mills estate, split between Burlingame and Millbrae along Murchison Drive in 1954. The mid-1950s houses on Quesada Way, Sequoia Avenue, Clarice Lane and Marco Polo Way sit on that later land, on a map titled Mills Estate No. 3.

Public schools grew up with the houses. The city's historical sites map dates Lincoln School on Devereux Drive to 1950 and Burlingame Intermediate School on Quesada Way to about 1950, and the Burlingame School District keeps its office on Trousdale Drive. East of El Camino, Burlingame Gate's Cambridge, Oxford and Highway roads are older: county records date the bulk of those houses to the 1920s and 1930s.