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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Non-profit organization
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A nonprofit organization is an organization whose purpose is something other than making a profit. A nonprofit organization is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view. This is known as the non-distribution constraint, the decision to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption, charitable status and so on. The terms nonprofit and not-for-profit are not consistently differentiated across jurisdictions, in laymans terms they are usually equivalent in concept, although in various jurisdictions there are accounting and legal differences. The nonprofit landscape is varied, although many people have come to associate NPOs with charitable organizations. Although charities do make up an often high-profile or visible aspect of the sector, overall, they tend to be either member-serving or community-serving. e. It could be argued many nonprofits sit across both camps, at least in terms of the impact they make. For example, the support group that provides a lifeline to those with a particular condition or disease could be deemed to be serving its members. Many NPOs use the model of a bottom line in that furthering their cause is more important than making a profit. Although NPOs are permitted to generate revenues, they must be retained by the organization for its self-preservation, expansion. NPOs have controlling members or a board of directors, many have paid staff including management, whereas others employ unpaid volunteers and executives who work with or without compensation. In some countries, where there is a fee, in general. The extent to which an NPO can generate surplus revenues may be constrained or use of surplus revenues may be restricted. Some NPOs may also be a charity or service organization, they may be organized as a corporation or as a trust. Their goal is not to be successful in terms of wealth, NPOs have a wide diversity of structures and purposes. Some of the above must be expressed in the charter of establishment or constitution. Others may be provided by the authority at each particular jurisdiction. While affiliations will not affect a legal status, they may be taken into consideration by legal proceedings as an indication of purpose, most countries have laws that regulate the establishment and management of NPOs and that require compliance with corporate governance regimes
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Front building of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in
Seattle
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Museum
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Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public, the goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, the city with the largest number of museums is Mexico City with over 128 museums. According to The World Museum Community, there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries, the English museum comes from the Latin word, and is pluralized as museums. The first museum/library is considered to be the one of Plato in Athens, however, Pausanias gives another place called Museum, namely a small hill in Classical Athens opposite to the Akropolis. The hill was called Mouseion after Mousaious, a man who used to sing on the hill, the purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display items of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the education of the public. The purpose can also depend on ones point of view, to a family looking for entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, a trip to a local history museum or large city art museum could be a fun, and enlightening way to spend the day. To city leaders, a healthy museum community can be seen as a gauge of the health of a city. To a museum professional, a museum might be seen as a way to educate the public about the museums mission, Museums are, above all, storehouses of knowledge. In 1829, James Smithsons bequest, that would fund the Smithsonian Institution, stated he wanted to establish an institution for the increase, Museums of natural history in the late 19th century exemplified the Victorian desire for consumption and for order. Gathering all examples of classification of a field of knowledge for research. As American colleges grew in the 19th century, they developed their own natural history collections for the use of their students, while many large museums, such as the Smithsonian Institution, are still respected as research centers, research is no longer a main purpose of most museums. While there is a debate about the purposes of interpretation of a museums collection, there has been a consistent mission to protect. Much care, expertise, and expense is invested in efforts to retard decomposition in aging documents, artifacts, artworks. All museums display objects that are important to a culture, as historian Steven Conn writes, To see the thing itself, with ones own eyes and in a public place, surrounded by other people having some version of the same experience can be enchanting. Museum purposes vary from institution to institution, some favor education over conservation, or vice versa. For example, in the 1970s, the Canada Science and Technology Museum favored education over preservation of their objects and they displayed objects as well as their functions. One exhibit featured a printing press that a staff member used for visitors to create museum memorabilia
Museum
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The
Louvre Museum in
Paris (
France), one of the largest and most famous museums in the world.
Museum
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The
Uffizi Gallery, the most visited museum in
Italy and an important museum in the world. View toward the
Palazzo Vecchio, in
Florence.
Museum
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The
Museum Island in
Berlin.
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The
British Museum in
London.
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Oakland International Airport
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Oakland International Airport is an international airport in Oakland, California, United States. It is located approximately 10 miles south of Downtown and it is owned by the Port of Oakland. The airport has service to cities in the United States, Mexico. Cargo flights fly to cities in the United States, Canada, Oakland is a focus city for Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air. As of August 2015 Southwest has 120 daily departures on peak-travel days of the week, Alaska Airlines combined with sister-carrier Horizon Air has been the second-busiest carrier at the airport through 2013. In January 2014, Delta overtook Alaska as the airports No.2 carrier, the top five airlines by passenger count between October 2014 – September 2015 were Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways. Between October 2014 and September 2015,10,947,066 people traveled through OAK, in 2009, OAK had the highest on-time arrival percentage among the 40 busiest North American airports. The city of Oakland looked into the construction of an airport starting in 1925, in 1927 the announcement of the Dole prize for a flight from California to Hawaii provided the incentive to purchase 680 acres in April 1927 for the airport. The 7, 020-foot-long runway was the longest in the world at the time, the airport was dedicated by Charles Lindbergh September 17. Earhart departed from this airport when she made her final, ill-fated voyage, Boeing Air Transport began scheduled flights to Oakland in December 1927. It was joined by Trans World Airlines in 1932, in 1929, Boeing opened the Boeing School of Aeronautics on the field, which expanded rapidly in 1939 as part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Thousands of pilots and mechanics were trained before the facility was changed into the United Air Lines training center in 1945, armed Forces temporarily took over Oakland Airport and opened Naval Air Station Oakland. It was transformed into a base for military flights to the Pacific islands. After the war, airlines slowly returned to Oakland, Western Airlines began flights in 1946, and was followed by American Airlines, TWA, United, Transocean Airlines and Pacific Southwest Airlines. The airports first Jet Age airline terminal was designed by John Carl Warnecke & Associates and opened in 1962, part of a $20 million expansion on bay fill that included the 10, 000-foot runway 11/29. The May 1963 OAG showed 15 airline flights arriving in Oakland each day, including nine from San Francisco, in June 1963, TWA flew Oaklands first scheduled jet, by the late 1960s, World Airways had broken ground on the World Airways Maintenance Center at Oakland International Airport. The maintenance hangar could store four Boeing 747s, after the war Oaklands traffic slumped, but airline deregulation prompted several low-fare carriers to begin flights. This increase prompted the airport to build a $16.3 million second terminal, in 1987 an Air France Concorde visited Oakland to provide supersonic two-hour flights to the Pacific halfway to Hawaii and back to Oakland
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Oakland International Airport
Oakland International Airport
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FAA diagram
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Aerial view of NAS Oakland in the mid-1940s
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Oakland, California
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Oakland /ˈoʊklənd/ is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. The city was incorporated in 1852, Oaklands territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Its land served as a resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Francisco citizens moved to Oakland, enlarging the citys population, increasing its housing stock and it continued to grow in the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile manufacturing industry. Oakland is known for its sustainability practices, including a top-ranking for usage of electricity from renewable resources, in addition, due to a steady influx of immigrants during the 20th century, along with thousands of African-American war-industry workers who relocated from the Deep South during the 1940s. Oakland is the most ethnically diverse city in the country. The earliest known inhabitants were the Huchiun Indians, who lived there for thousands of years, the Huchiun belonged to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone. In Oakland, they were concentrated around Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, in 1772, the area that later became Oakland was claimed, with the rest of California, by Spanish settlers for the King of Spain. In the early 19th century, the Spanish crown granted the East Bay area to Luis María Peralta for his Rancho San Antonio, the grant was confirmed by the successor Mexican republic upon its independence from Spain. Upon his death in 1842, Peralta divided his land among his four sons, Most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente. The portion of the parcel that is now Oakland was called encinal—Spanish for oak grove—due to the oak forest that covered the area. In 1851, three men—Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon—began developing what is now downtown Oakland, on May 4,1852, the Town of Oakland incorporated. Two years later, on March 25,1854, Oakland re-incorporated as the City of Oakland, with Horace Carpentier elected the first mayor, the city and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s. In 1868, the Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, a number of horsecar and cable car lines were constructed in Oakland during the latter half of the 19th century. The first electric streetcar set out from Oakland to Berkeley in 1891, at the time of incorporation, Oakland consisted of the territory that lay south of todays major intersection of San Pablo Avenue, Broadway, and Fourteenth Street. The city gradually annexed farmlands and settlements to the east and the north, Oaklands rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902. This resulted in the town of Alameda being made an island
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Oakland skyline, with the old eastern span of the
San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in background
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1857 Map of Oakland
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One day's output of 1917
Chevrolet automobiles at their major
West Coast plant, now the location of
Eastmont Town Center
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In 1924, the
Tribune Tower was completed; in 1976, it was restored and declared an Oakland landmark.
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Cathedral of Christ the Light
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The Cathedral of Christ the Light, also called Oakland Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland in Oakland, California. It is the seat of the Bishop of Oakland, Christ the Light, the first cathedral built entirely in the 21st century, replaces the Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales, irreparably damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. The cathedral center also houses City Lights Cafe and the Cathedral Shop, as well as a public plaza, the Cathedral of Christ the Light was designed by architect Craig W. Hartman, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The Catholic Cathedral Corporation of the East Bay, the owner of the cathedral. On All Souls Day November 2, the mausoleum was dedicated, located at 2121 Harrison Street in Oakland, the cathedral serves as the mother church of approximately 530,000 Catholics in the counties of Alameda and Contra Costa. The Catholic Cathedral Corporation of the East Bay instituted a competition for Christ the Light. Various designs were judged and the corporation announced Santiago Calatrava, of Valencia and he designed the post–September 11 World Trade Center Port Authority Trans-Hudson station in New York City. Calatravas design for The Cathedral of Christ the Light was chosen before a site was appropriated for the project, Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill offices in San Francisco. Hartmans vision for The Cathedral of Christ the Light was likened to the image of a mitre, shaped by steel. The worship space in The Cathedral of Christ the Light is a vesica piscis shape, the walls are composed of overlapping panels of wood and glass rising skyward to form the vault, much like the scales of a fish. The design is inspired by the miracle of the loaves and the fishes in Christian tradition, like the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels which serves the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, The Cathedral of Christ the Light is built with protective measures against earthquake damage. A small garden on The Cathedral of Christ the Lights grounds is intended to serve as a place of healing for survivors of sexual abuse. We remember, and we affirm, never again, orgues Létourneau Limitée Organ Opus 118 was installed on both side of the Vesica. The Catholic Cathedral Corporation of the East Bay was an outgrowth of a February 2000 meeting of representatives from parishes of the Diocese of Oakland, the summit reached consensus to proceed with the planning of a new cathedral. Some questioned whether the money should not have spent more appropriately elsewhere. They also noted that the cathedral was financed by donations solicited specifically for the project, suggestions were made to use the donations for other projects instead, like those administered by the diocese to help the poor or to build new schools. While some have praised the innovative, modern design and stripped-away iconography, traditionalists have questioned its fidelity to Catholic doctrine. Rev. Leo Edgerly Jr. who serves on the advisory board, replied to the critics, You can go to Europe and see Gothic cathedrals
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Exterior view of The Cathedral of Christ the Light
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Cathedral interior
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Cathedral crypt
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Chapel of the Chimes (Oakland, California)
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Chapel of the Chimes was founded in 1909 as a crematory and columbarium in Oakland, California. The present building dates largely from a 1928 redevelopment based on the designs of the architect Julia Morgan, the Moorish- and Gothic-inspired interior is a maze of small rooms featuring ornate stonework, statues, gardens, fountains and mosaics. The name chapel refers primarily to the style of interior design, the building maintains its original functions, and also serves as the venue for annual music festivals on the winter and summer solstices. The chapels owners operate funeral homes and cemeteries, not designed by Morgan, in Hayward, also under the name Chapel of the Chimes, Chapel of the Chimes holds the records of the Chapel of Memories on Pleasant Valley Avenue. Garden of Memory has been held 1996–present, this is a columbarium walk-through event held every year on the evening of the summer solstice and it features over 40 musicians performing on unique instruments, or compositions designed for the event. The sound is often electronic or electro-acoustic in source and then electronically processed. S
Chapel of the Chimes (Oakland, California)
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Interior of the columbarium, with book-shaped
cinerary urns.
Chapel of the Chimes (Oakland, California)
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Garden of Memory
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Dunsmuir House
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The Dunsmuir House and Gardens is located in Oakland, California on a 50-acre site. The Dunsmuir House has an architectural style and is listed in the U. S. National Register of Historic Places. It is now used primarily for weddings, receptions, business gatherings, the house was built in 1899 by Alexander Dunsmuir, son of Robert Dunsmuir, a wealthy coal magnate from Victoria, BC. His new bride returned to live in the home but soon died herself in 1901, mrs. Hellman kept the estate well into the 1950s after her husbands death in 1920. During this time included the swimming pool and Dinkelspiel House. In the early 1960s, the mansion and lands were purchased by the City of Oakland with the intention of using it as a conference center, deer, wild turkeys and water fowl also make the estate their home. 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, the servant quarters in the house are designed to accommodate 12 live-in staff. Docents lead tours of the grounds and the 37-room Dunsmuir Mansion on Wednesdays. The non-profit organization rents out all or part of the property for various such as weddings, corporate engagements, auctions
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Dunsmuir House
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First Unitarian Church of Oakland
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The First Unitarian Church of Oakland is located in western Downtown Oakland, California. It is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association, the building site was purchased in November 1888 from Jane K. Sather, a patron of the University of California. Construction began in 1890 and was completed in September 1891, although it began to be used for various activities while still unfinished, the church building was designed in 1889 by Walter J. Mathews. This solid masonry Romanesque Revival style church departed radically from Californias then predominant wood framed Carpenter Gothic style churches. It is noted for its famous stained glass windows produced by Goodhue of Boston, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake damaged the building, but did not destroy it. The church is listed as California Historical Landmark #896, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The church remains a significant cultural and architectural landmark in Oakland, office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Official website Harvard. edu, Historical records of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland — at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School. CA-2670, First Unitarian Church of Oakland,685 Fourteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA,12 photos,41 data pages,2 photo caption pages
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First Unitarian Church
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Jack London Square
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Jack London Square is a popular entertainment and business destination on the waterfront of Oakland, California, United States. A farmers market is hosted among the shops on Sunday mornings. The former presidential yacht USS Potomac is moored at an adjacent slip, Jack London Square is located at the south end of Broadway, across the Oakland Estuary from Alameda. Current California Governor Jerry Brown made his home here before moving north to the Uptown neighborhood. KTVU, the Bay Areas Fox affiliate, has had studios at the Square since it began broadcasting on March 3,1958, swarm Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in the neighborhood. A mainline railroad runs through the middle of the street, with the speed limit set at 15 mph. The tracks running through Jack London Square are used by BNSF Railway, Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, San Joaquin, the trains share the road with automobiles, AC Transit buses, and pedestrians. The square is a popular spot for railfans. Jack London Square’s most recent changes are adding more businesses, restaurants, under lead developer Ellis Partners, Jack London Squares new architecture and public spaces are adding to the daytime and nighttime population and use. Recent new components include the 55 Harrison building, a 178,000 square-foot mid-rise by RMW Architects in association with Steve Worthington, Jack London District, Oakland, California Chinatown, Oakland, California Old Oakland Official website The Jack London District Association The Jack London News
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Jack London docks at dawn, summertime
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An excursion train pulled by a classic
BC Rail steam locomotive visits JLS in 1977
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Reconstruction of Jack London's Klondike Hut in Jack London Square
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Kaiser Center
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The property is bounded by Lakeside Drive, which terminates and joins Harrison Street at the site, 20th-, 21st-, and Webster-streets. When completed in 1960, it was Oaklands tallest building, as well as the largest office tower west of the Rocky Mountains, a three-story office/retail building adjacent to the main tower was completed in 1963. Kaiser Center was the headquarters of Kaiser Industries, a Fortune 500 conglomerate that was headed by industrialist Edgar F. Kaiser at the time the building was constructed. The buildings roof garden was designed by San Francisco-based landscape architecture firm, Theodore Osmundson & Associates, other tenants include the University of California Office of the President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, The Port Company, and California Bank & Trust. Global technical services company AECOM is set to move into the building in 2016, official website Kaiser Center at The Swig Company Historic American Landscapes Survey No. CA-3, Kaiser Center,300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, Alameda County, CA,22 photos,18 measured drawings,6 data pages,3 photo caption pages
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Kaiser Center
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Lake Merritt
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Lake Merritt is a large tidal lagoon in the center of Oakland, California, just east of Downtown. It is surrounded by parkland and city neighborhoods and it is historically significant as the United States first official wildlife refuge, designated in 1870, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1966. A popular walking and jogging path runs along its perimeter, the circumference of the lake is 3.4 miles and its area is 155 acres. The lake was originally a leg of the San Francisco Bay formed where several creeks empty into the bay and it was surrounded by 1,000 acres of wetlands when the Ohlone people fished, hunted and gathered food along its shores. By 1810, the remaining Native Americans were removed to Mission San José, in 1856, Peralta fought and won a United States Supreme Court case against the squatters but further court cases between his sons and daughters would greatly diminish their holdings. The Peralta brothers had to much of the land to Carpentier to pay legal fees. Oakland was incorporated in 1852 with Carpentier as its first mayor, Lake Merritt naturally had tidal flows via a broad 600 foot outlet, but this has been steadily reduced with development of the region after 1869. Currently the tidal flows are limited in size and managed for flood control, for years the lake acted as a waste collector. It was regarded as ideal for sewage because of its chemical contents, sixty miles of brick and wood channeling sent the broken down sewage to the bottom of the lake to then be eaten by bottom feeders. The stench at the lake during the decomposition of the sewage was a problem for Oaklanders on the west shore and residents of Clinton and San Antonio villages on the east. Dr. Samuel Merritt, a mayor of Oakland who owned property at the edge, was keen to get the body of water cleaned up so that it could become a source of civic pride. Sewage was to be redirected elsewhere by two new city projects, though these werent completed until 1875, the resulting body of water was called variously Lake Peralta, Merritts Lake and later Lake Merritt. The lake at that time still had thick wetlands fringing the shores, in order to protect the birds from duck hunters and stop the noise and danger of gunfire so close to the city, Dr. Merritt proposed to turn the lake into a wildlife refuge in 1869. The state legislature voted Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge into law in 1870, no hunting of any sort was to be allowed and the only fishing was to be by hook and line. The ornate Camron-Stanford House was built in 1876 near the western shore. Tax records suggest that Samuel Merritt built the Italianate Victorian as part of his plan to promote and develop downtown Oakland, in 1877, the houses title was transferred to Mrs. Alice Camron, a purchase she was able to make due to an inheritance. She, her husband Will and their two daughters were the first residents of the home, further fine homes were built on the lakeshore by others following Dr. Merritts lead, though none but Camron-Stanford remain today. From 1910 until 1967, the served as the Oakland Public Museum with an active program of changing exhibits
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A view looking west toward the Lakeside Apartments District, the Tribune Tower and Downtown Oakland
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Lake Merritt
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The Bellevue-Staten Building was designed by Herman Baumann and constructed in 1929 using an architectural blend of
Spanish Colonial and
Art Deco styles.
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The "necklace of lights" surrounding Lake Merrit.
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Leimert Bridge
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Leimert Bridge is located in the Oakmore neighborhood of Oakland, California. It spans 357 ft and is 117 ft high above Sausal Creek and it is a cement and steel arch bridge. When it was built in 1926, it was the largest single-span bridge on the West Coast, the bridge was designed by George Posey who also designed the Posey Tube tunnel between Oakland and Alameda. Realtor Walter H. Leimert built the bridge in order to develop the Oakmore Heights area and it became a City of Oakland landmark in 1980. Hiking Trails that travel under the bridge, can be accessed from the Sausal Creek train heads at Dimond Park, ISBN 0-7385-2926-5 The Leimert Bridge, Historical background - Oakmore Homes Association with pictures of bridge
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Outline
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Oakland City Hall
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Oakland City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Oakland, California. The current building was completed in 1914, and replaced a building that stood on what is now Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Standing at the height of 320 feet, it was the first high-rise government building in the United States, at the time it was built, it was also the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. The building was designed by New York-based architecture firm Palmer & Hornbostel in 1910, the building, constructed in the Beaux-Arts style, resembles a rectangular wedding cake. The bottom tier serves the foundation and it is three stories high and houses the mayors office, the city council chamber, hearing rooms, and a police station with a firing range below in the basement. The thinner second tier follows, it is an office tower. The top floor of section houses a 36-cell jail with an outdoor yard that has gone unused since the 1960s. Above the second tier is the podium with a clock tower on top. The exterior is built of granite and terra cotta, while the inside is built of white. In 1983, the Oakland City Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the building suffered from major structural damage and was immediately closed down. Instead of tearing it down and replacing it with a newer building, to do so, steel columns in the foundation were cut and they were replaced by rubber bearings. Steel beams were added to support the structure and concrete walls were added to support existing walls. The building can now move laterally 18-20 inches in an earthquake, the city hall was repaired along with the downtown revitalization project of building new office buildings. The repair project cost $85 million
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Oakland City Hall
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Oakland City Hall in 1917
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Oakland California Temple
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The Oakland California Temple is the 15th constructed and 13th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During a January 23,1961 meeting, plans for the temple were announced by David O. McKay, ground was broken on May 26,1962, with the cornerstone laid May 25,1963, and dedication on November 19,1964. Located in the city of Oakland, California, at 4770 Lincoln Ave, it is the only LDS temple built with a modern five-spire design and its architect was Harold W. Burton. The exterior of the temple is reinforced concrete faced with white granite from Raymond. On the north and south faces of the temple are two friezes, it is the last LDS temple to have such. The back is a depiction of Christ descending from heaven to the people of the American continent soon after his resurrection in the Holy Land, the front illustrates Christ preaching his gospel to the people. The temple sits on a prominent site in the Oakland hills and has become a local landmark, through the front courtyard are stairways which lead to the temple terrace situated above the ground floor of the temple. From the temple grounds and terrace are spectacular views of the Bay Area, including downtown Oakland, the Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island, downtown San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. The grounds are accented by flowers, palm trees, and a formal-style man-made river running from one fountain to the other. The temple was built on an 18. 3-acre plot, has four rooms, seven sealing rooms. The visitors center has free tours around the grounds and atop the temple daily, the building of the Oakland Temple, as well as other temples in California was planned as early as 1847. The site where the Oakland Temple now stands was inspected by David O. McKay, then second counselor in the First Presidency, the 14.5 acres were purchased by the church on January 28,1943. Ground was broken for the temple in 1962, on February 23,2017 the LDS Church announced that beginning February 2018, the temple will close for renovations that are anticipated to be completed during 2019. Notable presidents of the temple have included Lorenzo N. Hoopes, in the nearby Interstake Center, local members performed a Latter-day Saint pageant for many years. The pageant, commonly known as the Temple Pageant, was a stage production rehearsing the history. It was one of only a few temple pageants around the country, others include the Easter Pageant in Mesa, Arizona, until its retirement, it was the only such pageant performed indoors as well as the only one to be fully accompanied by a live orchestra. Initially, the pageant consisted of three acts performed over three nights, however, it was eventually shortened to an hour and a half. In November 2007, a letter sent to stake and mission presidents in the region from D, todd Christofferson, then of the Presidency of the Seventy, indicated that the pageant would no longer be held
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Oakland California Temple
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The Oakland California Temple
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The temple at Christmas
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Dedicated in 1963
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Pardee Home
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The Pardee Home is a house in Oakland, California that was home to three generations of the Pardee family. It is now a museum, showing over 100 years of the life of a prominent California family. The house, an example of Italianate architecture, is a city landmark, a California Historical Landmark. The house was constructed in 1868 by California State Senator Enoch H. Pardee and his son, George Pardee, a Governor of California, also inhabited the house, inheriting it after his fathers death. After Georges death in 1941, it passed on to his two daughters, Madeline and Helen, who lived in the house until their deaths in 1980 and 1981 respectively, the interior of the house is the main attraction of the museum. Georges wife Helen collected knick-knacks from all over the world, including scrimshaw from Alaska, tobacco pipes from the Philippines, and she was fond of giving house tours to show off her collection. All of the furnishings are original and the house looks as it did in 1981, the original carriage house and stable are still standing and the entire complex is part of Oaklands Preservation Park Historic District. The house was to be demolished for the construction of Interstate 980 and it opened as a public museum in 1991. Northern California History Found in Oakland Oasis, Pardee Home web site Preservation Park web site Historic American Buildings Survey
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Pardee House
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Preservation Park
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Preservation Park is located in Oakland, California. The park includes sixteen historic buildings, five of which stand in their original location, the sixteen houses are arranged to resemble a late 19th-century Oakland neighborhood. The sixteen buildings are, Remillard House, Queen Anne style, pierre Remillard was a brickyard owner, and his bricks were used in the construction of the nearby First Unitarian Church of Oakland. Lilly Remillard tutored Jack London at the home, Ginn House, English Arts and Crafts style. Frederick Burrell Ginn and wife Mary Crocker commissioned architect A, page Brown to design the home. Brown later worked on the San Francisco Ferry Building, the Nile Club, a members-only group of Oaklands male elite, built a theater next to Ginn House. It was later used as a USO facility, designed by Charles W. Dickey, who also worked on the Claremont Hotel. The home was built when the Sather House and Garden occupied the lot across the street, jane Sather is the donor of UC Berkeleys Sather Gate and Sather Tower. Later, the home was purchased by Orrin Gowell, who became an architect in the office that designed the 1923 Tribune Tower, elisha Higgins was a San Francisco lumber dealer. Owned by Ellen Gould White and James White, together, they worked within the Seventh Day Adventist church. They launched a paper called the Sign of the Times and this building now houses the Preservation Park offices, and the Rio California cafe. Henry Knox was a San Francisco dentist, the house was originally located on what is now 28th Street in what is now called Pill Hill. The house was owned by John and Catherine Buckley. This was the last home moved to Preservation Park, originally stood at what is now the 14th Street freeway overpass. Owned by William Bartling, partner in a San Francisco bookbinding firm, Charles O. Park painted train cars for the Central Pacific Railroad. This house originally stood at 7th and Grove, Robinson House, Queen Anne Cottage style. Owned by Gertrude and W. H. Robinson, originally built in Fruit Vale, or what is now called Fruitvale. Her father worked at the San Francisco Mint and she later married John F. Conners, who became the owner and publisher of the Oakland Enquirer
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Thornton House
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Stage in Niles Hall.
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Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building
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The Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building complex is a federal building complex in Oakland, California, constructed as part of the Oakland City Center redevelopment project. In 1998, the United States Congress passed a bill naming the building for former mayor and it consists of two identical towers topped with pyramid-shaped roofs, echoing similar landmarks such as the Alameda County Courthouse. The towers are connected by a ground level rotunda and a sky bridge. The podium of one of the houses a federal courthouse. Both buildings are 268 feet /81.7 meters in height to roof,100.0 m in height including spires
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Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building complex
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USS Potomac (AG-25)
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USS Potomac, formerly USCGC Electra, was Franklin Delano Roosevelts presidential yacht from 1936 until his death in 1945. In January 2016 the USS Williamsburg was scrapped leaving USS Potomac, on 3 August 1941, she played a decoy role while Roosevelt held a secret conference to develop the Atlantic Charter. She is now preserved in Oakland, California, as a National Historic Landmark, Potomac was originally built in 1934 by the Manitowoc Ship Building Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin as the United States Coast Guard Cutter Electra. She was converted to serve as a yacht and commissioned into the United States Navy in 1936. In the following years, Potomac was heavily used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for fishing trips, the second funnel is fake, and concealed the elevator used for raising Roosevelt in his wheelchair in the unlikely event of having to enter lifeboats on the roof. In 1939 the United Kingdoms King George VI and Queen Elizabeth travelled with the Roosevelts aboard Potomac to George Washingtons home at Mount Vernon, on 3 August 1941, President Roosevelt left Washington to board Potomac at the submarine base at New London. Potomac then sailed for Appogansett Bay where the President did some fishing, eventually Potomac anchored in Menemsha Bight in Vineyard Sound, where the heavy cruiser USS Augusta already lay at anchor. In the early hours of 5 August Potomac came alongside Augusta, Augusta then proceeded at high speed to Newfoundland for a clandestine meeting with Winston Churchill. In the meantime and for security purposes, the Presidents flag continued to be flown from Potomac while she transited the Cape Cod Canal in New England waters. A Secret Serviceman, approximating the President in size and affecting his mannerisms when visible from a distance, press releases issued daily from Potomac led all who read them to believe that the President was really embarked in his yacht on a pleasure cruise. After the meetings, Augusta returned the President to Potomac on 14 August, after President Roosevelts death, Potomac was decommissioned by the Navy, and returned to US Coast Guard custody in November 1945. From 1946 she served with the Maryland Tidewater Fisheries Commission, and was sold to Warren G. Toone in April 1960, in January 1964 she was purchased by Elvis Presley for US$55,000. Presley offered it to the March of Dimes who could not use it and he then gave it to St. Jude Childrens Hospital, in Memphis, to sell as a fund raiser. The hospital was able to sell it that year for US$75,000. By 1980, she was involved in smuggling and was seized by the United States Customs Service in San Francisco, then towed to Treasure Island. After being refloated by the U. S. Navy just two later, Potomac was sold to the Port of Oakland for $15,000. She is now preserved by the Potomac Association, and berthed at Jack London Square in Oakland and she is open to dockside tours and regular cruises on San Francisco Bay. Potomac was used in June 2011 to film scenes of the Paul Thomas Anderson film The Master
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USS Potomac at
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Franklin and
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Tribune Tower (Oakland)
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The Tribune Tower is a 305-ft. 22-story building located in downtown Oakland, California, built in 1906, tower erected in 1923, the 89,251 sq. -ft. Building was the tallest building in Oakland constructed in the 1920s and it is currently the 11th tallest building in Oakland. The architecture of the tower, much like The Campanile on the UC Berkeley campus, was inspired by St Marks Campanile in Venice, Italy. The building was opened by Joseph R. Knowland on January 1,1924, as the home of the Oakland Tribune newspaper, and is a symbol of both the Tribune and the city of Oakland. In 1915, when Joseph Knowland, a former U. S. congressman, acquired the Oakland Tribune, in 1918, the Breuner Furniture Company vacated its home at Thirteenth and Franklin. Knowland envisioned the vacated showroom and an adjacent warehouse as the site of a first-class newspaper facility and he began to implement this vision with the acquisition of the Breuners property and the move of the Tribune there. What became the base of the Tribune Tower had been designed by D. Franklin Oliver. The now-familiar clock tower, designed by Edward T. Foulkes, was added in 1923 to complete the Tribune Tower as it appears today. The architect designed the tower with a mix of French and Italian classical elements, from 1924, the Tower would appear on the newspapers masthead. The top floor of the tower housed radio station KLX from its opening until the station was sold in 1959, KLX was sold to pay off debts incurred in the ill-fated 1958 run by U. S. Senator William F. Knowland, Joseph Knowlands son, for governor of California, Joseph Knowland was a political mentor to his son, as well as to California attorney general and governor Earl Warren and many other Republicans. The building was declared a city landmark on May 4,1976, at various times, the building has flown a flag with the word, THERE emblazoned upon it. This is a send-up of Gertrude Steins comment that in Oakland there is no there there, in 1979, Gannett Company purchased the newspaper and the Tower from the Tribune Publishing Corporation. The Tower was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which forced the Tribune to relocate to new offices in Jack London Square, the Tower sat empty until 1995, when John Protopappas purchased it for $300,000. His company, Madison Park Financial Corporation, renovated the Tower in the late 1990s, the Tribunes parent company, ANG Newspapers, returned the Tribune to the building after it reopened in 1999. In early 2006, Protopappas sold the Tower to Edward B, the Tribune moved permanently out of the Tower in 2007 and is now located in a building on Oakport Street, near the Oakland International Airport. The Clock mechanisms were rebuilt in 1999 by Kevin Binkert, the clock faces were restored and repainted in the late fall of 2006
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Tribune Tower
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The Tribune Tower, the former headquarters of the Oakland Tribune
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The Tribune Tower at night, viewed from the
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Oakland Technical High School
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It is one of six comprehensive public high school campuses in Oakland. Oakland Techs attendance jurisdiction includes several neighborhoods, including Oakland Chinatown, Rockridge, North Oakland, Tech received the maximum 6-year accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 2009. Oakland Techs main building was built in 1914 and resembles the main building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the 1970s, when many California schools were being demolished and rebuilt for earthquake safety, instead, it was gutted and rebuilt on the inside, while its historic exterior was preserved. The school was declared the 99th historic landmark by the city of Oakland on July 23,1985, while Tech was closed for earthquake retrofitting in the 1970s, the school was displaced to 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. This location is sometimes referred to Old Tech but was actually the campus of the now defunct University High School. That campus had then served as Merritt College from 1954 to 1966 and is considered the birthplace of the Black Panthers. In 1977 a group of students from a U. S. Government class at Tech launched a drive to create a California state holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. The idea was not new - about a dozen states already had such holidays, the students formed themselves into a group called The Apollos and lobbied for the holiday for four years, it was finally passed by the legislature and signed by the governor in 1981. In 2008 two students at other Oakland high schools heard about the Apollos and made a short documentary film about their successful quest. Students at Oakland Technical High School have the option of enrolling in one of the schools academies, students take one class within their academies, and spend the rest of the day in normal classes. Paideia is an advanced History and English program, in the sophomore year, students have the option to take English 2 Paideia and World Cultures. In 11th grade, students, based on their grades, have the option to enroll in AP or HP English, in senior year, students, according to grades, are also able to take AP Government and AP English 4. The Engineering Academy focuses on mechanical engineering, starting in 10th grade, the students in this academy study engineering, physics, drafting, etc. Students can be enrolled in the Paideia and the Engineering programs. In 2008, over half of the senior block was accepted to the prestigious UC Berkeley. Students regularly score 4s or 5s for AP classes taken in the Paideia program, - rapper Huey P. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, St. In 1993, Tech, at its current location, was featured in the movie Made in America
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Front entrance to Oakland Technical High School
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University High School, where Tech moved temporarily during retrofitting in the 1970s
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Evergreen Cemetery (Oakland, California)
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Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery, crematorium and mausoleum located in Oakland, Alameda County, California, near the Eastmont Town Center and Mills College. The cemetery is on a hill, with a large combined mausoleum, crematorium. It is the second largest cemetery in Oakland, after the Mountain View Cemetery and it is full, and closed to new interments, but still operates a crematorium. 412 unclaimed bodies of the Jonestown mass suicide are buried at Evergreen, jacob E. Swap, Civil War soldier given the Medal of Honor There is a small group of gravestones for members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club. The Oakland chapter of the club is located not far from the cemetery
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Evergreen Cemetery
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memorial plaques to the Jonestown mass killing victims
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Hells Angels gravesite
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Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
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The Mountain View Cemetery is a large 226-acre cemetery in Oakland, Alameda County, California. It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859, the association they formed still operates the cemetery today. Mountain View was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect who also designed New York Citys Central Park and much of UC Berkeley. Because of this, and its setting, the cemetery is a tourist draw. Olmsteds intent was to create a space that would express a harmony between humankind and the natural setting, in the view of 19th century English and American romantics, park-like cemeteries, such as Mountain View, represented the peace of nature, to which humanitys soul returns. Olmsted, drawing upon the concepts of American Transcendentalism, integrated Parisian grand monuments, adjoining Mountain View Cemetery is Saint Mary Cemetery and the Chapel of the Chimes mausoleum and columbarium. There are many notable people interred in Mountain View, many are local figures in California history, English, US Representative California John B. Perkins, Governor of California 1880–1883, U. S. Senator, John Swett, Founder of the California Public School System. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System, Mountain View Cemetery
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Millionaire's Row, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California.
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Panoramic view from the rear of the cemetery, looking out across the
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View of the cemetery from Charles Crocker's Tomb
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The statue above
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African American Museum and Library at Oakland
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It contains an extensive archival collection of such artifacts as diaries, correspondence, photos, and periodicals. The AAMLO began as a collection in 1946, and in 1964 became the East Bay Negro Historical Society. Among the more than 160 collections in the library are archives relating to Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, Africa, materials include photographs, manuscripts, letters, diaries, newspapers, recorded oral histories, videos, and microfilms. AAMLO’s two galleries host changing exhibitions of art, history, and culture, AAMLO began as a private collection in 1946. Initially housed in a shop front on Grove Street, the collection grew quickly and, in 1960. It officially became AAMLO, a private partnership, in 1994. AAMLO moved into its current location in 2002, list of museums focused on African Americans The AAMLO Website Friends of the Oakland Library page on the AAMLO Oakland Heritage page on the AAMLO A number of photographs from the AAMLO collection
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Oakland Public Library
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Chabot Space and Science Center
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The Center is the continuation and expansion of a public observatory that has served San Francisco Bay Area schools and citizens with astronomy and science education programs since 1883. It is named after the father of mining and benefactor of the original Oakland Observatory. The institution began in 1883 as the Oakland Observatory, through a gift from Anthony Chabot to the City of Oakland, the original Oakland Observatory was located in downtown Oakland and provided public telescope viewing for the community. For decades, it served as the official timekeeping station for the entire Bay Area. The observatory moved to its Mountain Boulevard location in 1915 due to increasing light pollution, in the mid-1960s, the facility was expanded considerably. Throughout this time, the Chabot Science Center, as it was renamed, was staffed mainly by Oakland Unified School District personnel, in 1977, seismic safety concerns terminated public school students’ access to the original observatory facility. The observatory building remained open to the public, but school activities were limited to outlying classroom buildings. In January 2000, anticipating the opening of the new facility, opened August 19,2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is an 86, 000-square-foot, state-of-the-art science and technology education facility on a 13-acre site in the hills of Oakland, California. The museum was formerly an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program, but is currently no longer an affiliate. Aside from its telescopes, it contains, The Planetarium, a full digital projection system with various shows running daily. The Tien MegaDome Theater, a 70-foot dome screen auditorium which presented various IMax-like shows, the Challenger Learning Center, a hands-on simulated space mission environment where 8 teams work together to complete a mission. Many changing exhibits, full of hands-on displays, that space and science topics. As of August 18,2006, there are nine open exhibits, Chabot Space and Science Center has three observatory telescopes. Leah, an 8 refractor telescope, was built in 1883 by Alvan Clark, rachel is a 20 refractor telescope, commissioned in 1914 from Warner & Swasey, with optics by John Brashear. It is the largest refractor in the western United States regularly open to the public, nellie is a 36 reflecting telescope which opened in June 2003 and is housed in a rolling roof observatory. The weekly live shows are presented by a staff astronomer, live Show, Cosmos 360 uses the planetariums digital fulldome system to view the night sky as well as flying through space to see the universe from a different perspective. The guided tour include in-depth views of planets, constellations and other current astronomical events, the show is updated to reflect seasonal night skies. Daily Shows, The daily shows range from content geared for children through more sophisticated shows designed for a general audience
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View of the entrance of the Chabot Space and Science Center.
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Solar clock at the Chabot Space and Science Center.
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The sign at the entrance of the Chabot Space and Science Center.
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Wightman Observatory Plaza at the current location.
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Oakland Museum of California
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The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located in Oakland, California. The museum contains more than 1.8 million objects dedicated to telling the story of California. It was created in the out of the merger of three separate museums dating from the early 20th century, and was opened in 1969. Outdoor architectural features are terraced gardens, patios, outdoor sculpture, a large lawn area. Between 2009 and 2013, the museum underwent a renovation and expansion designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates. The art and history galleries were closed from August 2009 to May 2010, followed by closure of the science gallery. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed the graphics program for the renovation. Core support for the improvements came from Measure G, a $23.6 million bond initiative passed by Oakland voters in 2002. The museum owns more than 70,000 examples of California art and design, painters represented in the art collection include Addie L. The museum holds the archives of Dorothea Lange and images by many other noted photographers. More than 1.8 million items represent Californias history and cultures from the era before Europeans arrived, the collection of the Natural Sciences Department showcases California as a biodiversity hotspot and as the state containing the greatest biological diversity in the nation. The Oakland Public Museum opened in the nearby Camron-Stanford House in 1910 and its first curator, Charles P. Wilcomb, gathered a collection representing two aspects of California cultural history, Native Americans and settlers from the East Coast. The Oakland Art Gallery opened in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in 1916, originally under the auspices of the Oakland Public Museum, whose director at the time, the Snow Museum of Natural History opened in the Cutting mansion, also on the shore of Lake Merritt, in 1922. Although the merged Oakland Museum focuses on California art, history and nature, some pieces from outside the state remain, such as a collection of snuff bottles. Official Oakland Museum of California website Great Buildings website - exterior and interior views
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Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, 1868, oil on canvas
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William Keith, Early Oakland, 7th and Adeline Streets, The Southern Pacific Depot, 1867, watercolor
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Anthony Chabot Regional Park
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Anthony Chabot Regional Park is a regional park in Oakland, California in the United States. It covers 5,067 acres in the San Leandro Hills adjacent to Oakland and it is part of the East Bay Regional Park District system. The terrain of the park is steep, consisting of grasslands, chaparral. The park is adjacent to Lake Chabot Regional Park, Redwood Regional Park, Dunsmuir Ridge Open Space, there are trails for hiking, horseback riding, and cycling that connect to other regional parks. Trailheads are located along Redwood Road and Skyline Boulevard in Oakland, the park houses two equestrian centers for private horse boarding and lessons, Chabot Equestrian Center and Skyline Ranch Equestrian Center. A marksmanship range was operated within the park by the non-profit Chabot Gun Club, the range closed in 2016, after operating 53 years, due to pollution problems caused by shell casings. Redwood Canyon Public Golf Course, a marina with rental boats, camping is a major activity in the park with a 75 campsite family campground and seven group camps. Anthony Chabot Family Campground is open year-round and features 53 drive-to tent campsites,10 walk-to tent campsites, some campsites offer views overlooking Lake Chabot. The parks seven group campsites are for groups ranging in size from 11 to 300 campers, Bort Meadow Group Camp, with a capacity of 300, also allows equestrian camping. Anthony Chabot Regional Park opened in 1952 as Grass Valley Regional Park, originally named for the dominant geographic feature of the part of the park. In 1965 the park was renamed in honor of Anthony Chabot, the lands that make up the park were originally ancestral land of the Jalquin, an Ohlone and Bay Miwok speaking tribe. The lands were divided by the Mexican land grants in the 1840s, the portion of the park to Rancho San Lorenzo. In the 1860s American settlers ranched the area including the 525-acre Grass Valley Ranch located in the area that is today Bort Meadow, cattle grazing continues in Grass Valley in modern times. Extensive coast redwood logging occurred in Anthony Chabot Regional Park and neighboring Redwood Regional Park from the late 1800s to early 1900s, while all the coast redwoods in Anthony Chabot Regional Park were logged, many regrowth trees are over 100 years old. Various water companies, predecessors to the East Bay Municipal Utility District, beginning around 1910, the water companies were responsible for planting the large eucalyptus plantations that are still a dominant feature in the park. Some water company land was leased to ranchers in the 1900s, including the family of Manuel Maciel, the Maciel family, ranched the land in the area that is now the Anthony Chabot Family Campground and marksmanship range. The main access road to these facilities is named Marciel Road in the familys honor, in the area of Big Bear Staging Area along Redwood Road was the Big Bear Tavern. While no traces remain, this was the site began the traditional jazz revival
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Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve
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Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve is a 241 acres regional park and nature reserve in the Berkeley Hills, in the eastern East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is within Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and it is a park within the East Bay Regional Parks District system. The Preserve is named after the California Huckleberry which grows abundantly within its habitat, the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve is on the crest of the Berkeley Hills, located above Oakland and Orinda. It represents a plant association found only in certain areas along the coastal climate region of California. It is a very diverse botanical area for plants of the mixed evergreen forest and montane chaparral and woodlands ecoregions. The Huckleberry Trail is a nature path that loops through the Preserve. Besides the California Huckleberry, other include the Golden chinquapin. California mixed evergreen forest List of California native plants Official Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve website
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Golden chinquapin (Chrysolepis chrysophylla), at the Preserve in the
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Pale Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio eurymedon) at the Huckleberry Botanic Preserve
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Joaquin Miller Park
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Joaquin Miller Park is a large open space park in the Oakland Hills owned and operated by the city of Oakland, California. It is named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller, who bought the land in the 1880s, naming it The Hights, the parks 500 acres are heavily wooded with coast redwoods, coast live oaks, and pines. Many of the trees were planted by Miller himself. The Oakland Hills location provides views of the San Francisco Bay area. The park features miles of hiking, biking, and horseback riding trails, an off-leash dog area, an amphitheater. Joaquin Miller Park contains the 2, 000-seat Woodminster Amphitheater and Cascade, for many years the Oakland Recreation Department put on popular productions of musical comedies there, three per summer, using mostly amateur performers. Starting in 1967, production of the summer musicals was taken over by the current management, the Cascade is the amphitheaters waterfall feature built in 1941 and dedicated to California writers, still with flowing water. It was designed by Howard Gilkey, who designed the Cleveland Cascade at Lake Merritt. City of Oakland, Joaquin Miller Park website Woodminster Musicals website
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Joaquin Miller at his home
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Joseph Knowland State Arboretum and Park
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Joseph Knowland State Arboretum and Park is a park located in the Grass Valley neighborhood of Oakland, California. It was formerly a park, and is now the property of the City of Oakland. The Oakland Zoo occupies the western lowlands of the park. The parks namesake and principal founder was Joseph Knowland, who served on the California State Park Commission from 1934 to 1960 and was its chairman from 1938, under his influence, the State of California purchased 453 acres for $660,000 on a matching grant basis. On April 301948, the property became a State Park, in December 1949, the park was leased to the City of Oakland with the proviso that Knowland Park would always remain a public park. At this time, a portion of the park became the new site of the relocated Oakland Zoo, in 1973, the site was ceded to the City of Oakland, and in 1975, management of the park was granted to the City of Oakland. The largest and most pristine portion of the park is undeveloped, the western highlands and northern slopes are currently a thriving hotspot for rare native plants and wildlife. The park is traversed along its northern boundary by Arroyo Viejo which flows to Lion Creek, in 2011, Oakland City Council voted to approve the expansion of the Oakland Zoo into upper Knowland Park. This move has been contested by the Friends of Knowland Park
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Western Knolls of Knowland Park
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Aerial view of the park with sections of the park labeled
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