Time and termites took their toll on the Addison Avenue site where Hewlett-Packard began — Bill Hewlett’s shed most of all. Bill lived in this structure when he moved to the property and he referred t ...

Wood reclaimed from the house was used to replace boards too damaged to reuse on Bill Hewlett’s shed.

The Addison Avenue garage proved to be a successful space for Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett to develop technology. Their 200A audio oscillators and 200B oscillators found a home on the workbench.

Thirty years after Hewlett-Packard was born, Bill reflected on the company’s earliest days. Check out his interview with author Jane Morgan as part of Palo Alto’s 75th anniversary celebration. ...

Harvey Zieber began working as an assistant to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the Addison Avenue garage, making him Hewlett-Packard’s first employee. He was also the only Hewlett-Packard employee be ...

Gleaming after its full restoration, the Hewlett-Packard house welcomed a new addition to the front of the property: a historical marker recognizing the site as the Birthplace of Silicon Valley. The s ...

Dave Packard married Lucile “Lu” Salter in 1938, not long before the couple moved from Schenectady, New York, to Palo Alto so Dave and Bill Hewlett could start Hewlett-Packard together. Lu would be cr ...

The living room in the Packards’ home at 367 Addison Avenue was also Hewlett-Packard’s first meeting room. The setting was furnished post-renovation as it might have been when the Packards resided the ...

A rare early photo of the Hewletts and the Packards all together at Addison Avenue. From left to right: Bill Hewlett, Flora Hewlett, Lucile Packard, Dave Packard.

A ceremony on December 6, 2005, celebrated the conclusion of the Addison Avenue restoration project, which focused on preserving and reusing as many original materials as possible. To honor the effort ...