Palo Alto Dish

The Dish is a radio telescope in the Stanford foothills. The 150-foot-diameter (46 m) dish was built in 1961 by the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International). The cost to construct the telescope was $4.5 million, and was funded by the United States Air Force. In the 1960s the Dish was used to provide information on Soviet radar installations by detecting radio signals bounced off the moon.

The MacFarland House is a historic house in Stanford, California. It was built in 1914 for Frank M. MacFarland, a professor of Historology at Stanford University. MacFarland was also the president of the California Academy of Sciences from 1934 to 1946. He lived here with his wife, née Olive Knowles Horabrook, and died in 1951.