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J. Mora Moss House is a boldly romantic Carpenter Gothic style Victorian home located within Mosswood Park in Oakland, California.It was built in 1864, bought by Oakland in 1912 and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1960 at which point it was pronounced "One of the finest, if not the finest, existing examples of Gothic architecture of French and English influence as ...
The history of Oakland, a city in the county of Alameda, California, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement by Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon in the 19th century. The area now known as Oakland had seen human occupation for thousands of years, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into ...
The Joaquin Miller House, also known as The Abbey, is a historic house in Joaquin Miller Park, a public park in the Oakland Hills area of Oakland, California, United States. A crude, vaguely Gothic structure, it was the home of poet Joaquin Miller from 1886 until his death in 1913. Miller was one of the nation's first poets to write about the ...
The Oakland Public Library is the public library in Oakland, California. Opened in 1878, the Oakland Public Library currently serves the city of Oakland, along with neighboring smaller cities Emeryville and Piedmont. The Oakland Public Library has the largest collection of any public library in the East Bay, featuring approximately 1.5 million ...
History of Oakland — in Alameda County, East Bay, California. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. ...
The Dunsmuir mansion was designed by the San Francisco architect J. Eugene Freeman and is an example of Neoclassical-Revival architecture which was popular in the late 1800s. The 37-room mansion is 16,224 square feet and features 10 fireplaces, a Tiffany-style dome, wood paneled public rooms and inlaid parquet floors.
Oakland Municipal Auditorium / Henry J. Kaiser Center: 10 Tenth Street April 3, 1979 28 Oakland City Hall: 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza June 19, 1979 29 St. Augustine's / Old Trinity Church: 29th Street & Telegraph Avenue December 4, 1979 30 Earl Warren House: 88 Vernon Street December 4, 1979 31 Oakland Hotel: 13th St., Harrison St., 14th & Alice ...
1871 – Mills Seminary relocates to Oakland. 1872 Brooklyn becomes part of Oakland. Theosophical Society Library founded. [2] 1873 – University of California relocates to Berkeley. 1875 – Oakland Daily Evening Tribune newspaper in publication. [5] 1878 – Oakland Free Library opens. [8] 1880 – Population: 34,456. [1] 1884 – Horton ...