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The Californian city of Stanford lies in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County,

just under an hours drive from San Francisco. Covering an inland area of 2.8 square miles,

Stanford is adjacent to Palo Alto, one of the principal cities of the affluent and progressive

Silicon Valley, which is served as an incubator for many prominent and influential technological

enterprises over the years, including Apple, Google, Facebook and Tesla. Stanford is home

to the prestigious 8000-day car Stanford University, a private co-educational and non-denominational

college and research institution. Many of the city's residents are students or faculty

members who live on or around campus in a range of accommodations, including Gormatry's,

Co-ops, Roe Houses, fraternities, sororities, single family homes and condominiums.

Established in 1885, the university was founded by Railroad Magnate and California Senator

Leeland Stanford and his wife Jane, in memory of their only child, Leeland, Jr., who died

of typhoid fever at age 15. The land began as a stock farm with oak dotted fields and

soon developed into one of the largest university campuses in the United States.

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