What Was the Hauschildt Ranch?
Hilltop Ranch the Winning Site for the New Hayward College Campus
Over 15 properties were under consideration as the possible location of the new State College for Alameda County - re-named “California State College at Hayward” in 1962. The Hauschildt Ranch site atop the Hayward Hills won out after an intense competition. The ranch buildings were located roughly where the campus Field House and track came to be built. Groundbreaking for the new campus was celebrated on February 22, 1961, while the new college’s classes were being temporarily held at the old Hayward Union High School on Foothill Boulevard (on the site of the current Safeway store, across from the old Mervyn’s building).
The lower view of the ranch property on which the new campus was built looks west, roughly in the direction of the future stadium and Field House; the top photo looks away from these ranch buildings proper, toward the south and present-day Pioneer Heights.