In Alameda on Santa Clara Steet just North of Paru Street is the W.W. Dixon creation of Stonehenge, Stoneliegh and Stonefaire.

As chronicled in Storybook Style by Arroll Gellner, Stonehenge is an amazing example of a storybook home community.

The homes are built around pedestrian courtyards with lush gardens, fountians and benches.  The buildings themsevles are wonderful example of tiny little storybook tudors. The homes look as if they are out of a fairytale and just simply evoke a pleasant feeling.

Automobile traffice to the garages to thes units are carried on alleyways around each complex.  This keeps the fronts of the units facing the gardens and the strong sense of community.

I went to an open house yesterday there at the Tuesday broker's open.  While walking to the unit, I ran across one of the residents that lives in one of the units.  She was a pleasant lady to talk to.

I had mentioned that I was one of the original members of Storybookers.com and the associated Yahoogroup.  She as going to pass the information about the group to some of the other homeowners.  Storybookers, group had been kind of slow for the last few months and it would be nice to get some new activity.

Anyway, I was talking to this nice lady and she had mentioned how some of the residents had taken a tour of some of the other known Dixon and Hillen Homes and Projects, Picardy Drive in the Mills College area of Oakland and Ross Street in the Rockridge district of Oakland.

I then went on to view the open house.  It was one of the spanish/mission revival buildings in the entire complex.  This was one of the properties on the back side of the property that actually have an address on Lincoln.  The REALTOR that showed the property had known some about the complex.  She had mentioned that the part of the complex that these buildings was in was actually called Stonefaire.  Something I hadn't known before.  Just goes to show you learn something everyday.

Once again I had mentioned to her to join the online group of storybook fans, Storybookers and the associated Yahoogroup.  Storybookers has about 180 members last time I looked.