Provided below is the content that Jim K provided on the walk he led on Wednesday. There is lots of interesting information on a number of beautiful homes. Two photos are attached and I am also including house pictures that Jim provided. Best, Dick Wednesday Walkers Tour Old and New Architecture in the Piedmont City Center – Chapter 2 The Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group had an excellent turnout of 58 walkers and 6 K-9 best friends for thei

The summary below by Ken H of last week’s that was led by Pat K. I got back this afternoon from our trip. I know Pat’s walk was fun and I appreciate Ken, who was subbing for me and Lori A, writing the summary. Attached are the group photo taken on Nace Avenue and the route map. Thanks again, Pat and Ken! Best, Dick Wednesday Walkers discover that “Nace is Nice!” By Ken H Braving another warm day on September 30th, the last day of the month, 50 members of the Piedm

Provided below is Lori A’s summary of Moya R’s excellent tour of Piedmont homes designed by notable architects that we had this week. Thanks go to Moya and Lori for this! Best, Dick On the hottest day of the first full week of September, a large Walking on Wednesday group of about forty hardy humans and five K-9 best friends braved the sun and gathered at the Exedra to answer the burning question, “Does the architect affect the value of a home?” The leader for our Septe

Last Wednesday our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group had a strong turnout of 50 walkers and seven K-9 best friends at the Exedra for Part 2 of a walk we had enjoyed in early August. Mary Carter was back to lead the walk and again drew on her former Wildwood School Piedmont history lessons and Ann Swift’s 2007 Cottages and Castles – The Centennial Houses of the City of Piedmont for a second visit to historical, pre-1906 San Francisco Earthquake Pie

Last Wednesday our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group had a very strong turnout of 55 walkers and six K-9 best friends at the Exedra for another special walk. As part of the group’s new initiative to ensure the long term future of the activity, more walkers are leading walks. This morning Mary C was going to have the group check out the new student drop off zones and plan for the parking spaces around Havens School. After that, she was going to dra

Our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group had a strong turnout of 45 walkers and three K-9 best friends at the Exedra on a warm July 15th morning for another special walk. Walker and landscape architect June Yee was going to take us to Bellevue Avenue and see a unique home and then continue uphill to Bell Avenue and visit walkers Peggy and Dana S at their home. Dana's landscaping recently received the Wildfire Resilience Award from the Piedmont Fire D

Our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group had a good turnout of 43 walkers and six K-9 best friends at the Exedra last Wednesday on a mild, overcast morning for our last walk of spring 2026. We had not walked the streets and seen the homes that were part of the early “Grand Avenue Heights” neighborhood development for over two years. The borders of this old piece of largely forgotten Piedmont history were on Grand Avenue, Boulevard Way, and Crofton, F

The week before last Wednesday, our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group visited Valant Place, a quiet cul-de-sac off Trestle Glen Road, with realtor and fellow walker Stacey Isaacs. We explored the seldom-visited street and toured a Piedmont home that was for sale. There were two other Piedmont homes on another seldom visited street that we had been monitoring for almost two years. These are new construction homes being built on Wistaria Way on the

Our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group had a rare destination last week. Zillow reported a Piedmont home at 23 Valant Place for sale. This seemed like a mistake because a Piedmont street named Valant Place did sound right, but then it was recalled we walked to Valant, a cul-de-sac off Trestle Glen Road, some years back, but had never returned. Walker/real estate broker Stacey Isaacs was going to meet us at the house for a tour. History about why thi

Last Wednesday was the last Wednesday of winter but for our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group it felt more like summer. The region’s recent heat wave was at its peak so a walk in the center of town was what we wanted to do. Spring was about to start, and it was time for our annual spring check of the Piedmont real estate market. Everyone enjoys seeing homes that are for sale, so even in the hot weather there was a strong turnout of 49 walkers and

It was a sunny, warm, summer-like morning last Wednesday when our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group came together at the Exedra for our weekly walk. The weather was one thing to celebrate but there was something else. Women's History Month is celebrated throughout the entire month of March. It spotlights the contributions of women to our history, culture, and society, and was officially established in the U.S. by Congress in 1987. There was a larg

On a rainy morning the prior week, members of our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group went to six Victorian homes in Ann Swift’s 2007 book, "Cottages and Castles – The Centennial Houses of the City of Piedmont." Ann was the Piedmont City Clerk for 22 years from 1988 to 2010 and an unofficial historian for the city of Piedmont. She wrote this book on the city’s 100th anniversary and describes 173 of the city's historic homes that were over 100 years ol

Last Wednesday morning was cold by Piedmont standards, and it rained hard shortly before our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking Wednesdays walkers gathered at the Exedra. We wanted to play it safe with the weather and stay in the central part of Piedmont for our weekly walk. Some moisture and weather uncertainty were in the air but there was a good turnout of 30 water-resistant walkers with umbrellas in hand and two of their K-9 best friends. Before we started walkin

Last Wednesday was a lovely winter morning, sunny and mild, and 49 members of our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group with five of their K-9 best friends were at the Exedra to enjoy it. The weather was great, but the group’s large size was a little surprising because they had been warned that this day’s walk was not an easy one. The group has a soft goal of going to every safe walking Piedmont street each year, but there were a few that we didn’t to

Last Wednesday our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group got lucky again with the weather. There was very heavy rain the following day, but our Wednesday morning was just cloudy. We were not surprised. We say it never rains during our walks and are almost always right. There was large turnout of 49 walkers and three K-9 best friends at the Exedra ready to enjoy our usually dry, weekly time together. We try to walk every traffic-safe Piedmont street du

Our Piedmont Recreation Department's Walking on Wednesdays group thought our weather luck was going to run out last Wednesday. All week the forecasts had been for a heavy rainstorm to blow through Piedmont Wednesday morning, just when we walk. We claim it never rains on Wednesday mornings in Piedmont, and that turned out to be once again true. It was just cloudy and a little windy when 27 walkers and two equally intrepid K-9 best friends assembled at the Exedra at our usual t

Our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group is going to have its annual Halloween week tour of the Mountain View Cemetery on next Wednesday, October 29th, but this past Wednesday was not too early to start getting into the spirits of Halloween. There were some spectacular, maybe even “spooktacular”, house decorations around the central part of town and we thought it would be fun to go see them. There was a strong turnout of 46 walkers but only one K-9 bes

Our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group got lucky again with the weather last Wednesday. It had rained heavily on Monday and Tuesday, but it had cleared by Wednesday morning. In July we had seen some of the sidewalk work that was being done on Grand Avenue, but construction of the City’s first bioswale project had not started. It is at the intersection of Fairview and Grand Avenues and is now complete. The recent rain provided an additional reason t

This Wednesday was a “Piedmont hot” day with the temperature in the 80s. Our Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays group...

There was a good turnout of about 36 walkers and four K-9 best friends at the Exedra last Wednesday for our Piedmont Recreation...