Shasta-Hanchett Park, San Jose Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

The name pairs two of the streets that run through it, Shasta Ave and Hanchett Ave, and the City's neighborhood map uses it for these blocks south of Park Ave. History San Jose describes a wider Shasta Hanchett Park neighborhood that reaches across The Alameda toward Cahill Park; this guide covers the residential wedge between Hester Ave, Park Ave, Meridian Ave and W. San Carlos St, outside the conservation area to the north.

Park Ave was the southwest edge of Agricultural Park, the county fairgrounds that Lewis E. Hanchett bought in 1905 and turned into Hanchett Residence Park, so these blocks were never part of his 1906 tract. The street names carry straight across, though: Hester, Shasta, Hanchett, Martin, Sierra and Yosemite avenues all continue south of Park Ave. The area joined the City of San Jose in the same December 8, 1925 annexation as the conservation area, according to the City's annexation records.

Building dates here run a little later than north of Park Ave. The City's Historic Resources Inventory lists a handful of houses from 1915 to 1939, including a 1939 Tudor Revival on Hanchett Ave that became a City Landmark in 2019. Census survey estimates count about half of the homes as built in 1939 or earlier, then a second wave in the 1940s through the 1960s, and about 125 homes built since 2000. The same estimates count about 125 attached single-family homes, which fits the townhome developments near W. San Carlos St.