PRIVATE AND GRACIOUS SINGLE STORY HOME 

With its heritage of stately trees, curving streets and gentle roundabouts, San Mateo Park is a location with perennial desirability and secluded, unique properties that attract residents seeking the San Francisco Peninsula's easy livability. Built in 1941, this private and gracious single-story home captures the character and detailing of the '40s yet has the flowing interior functionality and easy, intuitive garden access that popularized the later '50s ranch-style houses. Thoughtfully remodeled and expanded over the years, this home's balanced central floor plan creates an openness of living space and entertainment venues while maintaining subtle separation of public and private areas. Timeless and charming formal rooms, three large bedrooms and three full baths, plus a family room/kitchen and separate office/playroom are surrounded by a generous garden of verdant hedges, birch, magnolia, maple and fruit trees, soft ferns and flowering vines. With its ideal location on a wide and quiet street in the northern section of San Mateo Park, living at 755 Costa Rica means downtown Burlingame Avenue and popular Pershing Park are just short blocks away.