He also served on the board of directors for the Children's Health Council and was one of the founders of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
[1] In 1948 John Mackay built the first commercial building in downtown Menlo Park, California (on Santa Cruz Avenue).
These homes typically feature glass walls, post-and-beam construction, enclosed patios and open floor plans in a style indebted to Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe.
[3] The Mackay homes were designed by Anshen & Allen, the same architects who worked with Joseph Eichler.
In the 1950s, Mackay-manufactured homes often represented moving from farmland or remote locations into the newly developed suburbs.