1417 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, California 94063, United States
Rising on high foundations, the house at 1417 Middlefield Road occupies the southwest portion of a large lot at the northwest corner of Middlefield Road and Beech Street. The house is a Victorian era Italianate cottage, one-story over basement with an attic. Built c.1883 (San Mateo County Assessor’s Office estimate) the dwelling at 1417 Middlefield is one of the neighborhood’s best examples of the Italianate Style, popular during the mid-nineteenth century. The structure’s raised floor plate lent the owners stature and also served a practical purpose: to avoid periodic flooding in a marshy area.
Noventi acquired the Granger House in 2020
and finished remodeling it in 2025 bringing back a historic beautiful house.
By 1900, Frank Granger, a tax collector and head of the household, lived there with his wife Mary Granger, sons Minard Granger and Floyd Granger, as well as his brother-in-law Walter King. In 1901, youngest son, King Granger, was born. Frank Granger died on May 19, 1905 and Mary Granger subsequently became head of household.
When Frank Minard Granger was born on April 5, 1858, in Illinois, his father, Samuel, was 24 and his mother, Mary, was 17. He married Mary Ann "Dolly" King in 1892. They had three children during their marriage. He died on May 19, 1905, in San Francisco, California, at the age of 47, and was buried in Redwood City, California.
When King Frank Granger was born on July 17, 1901, in Redwood City, California, his father, Frank, was 43 and his mother, Mary, was 29. He married Olive Frances Vannucci on May 5, 1939, in Carson City, Nevada. He died on January 31, 1975, in Stanford, California, at the age of 73, and was buried in Colma, California.
The last owner of the original family.
When Elizabeth Ethel Selmi Tor was born on November 25, 1915, in San Francisco, California, her father, Paul, was 32, and her mother, Vesta, was 20. She had one son with Thomas J Ferrando. She then married Bernard A. Tor in 1967 in Virginia City, Nevada. She died on October 10, 1992, in Reno, Nevada, at the age of 76.