EXPLORE-D!
Now a neighborhood museum/history center, celebrating the many ethnic communities that live in the vicinity of Fruitvale Avenue in Oakland. The property has a fascinating history as the adobe home of Antonio Peralta, a son of the original Spanish-Mexican land grant holder of the area that has become Oakland. This was his second house. Here are some highlights of the story:
1840--Antonio Peralta builds a large adobe home. He also builds a tall adobe wall enclosing approximately 2½ acres around his garden and a number of one-story lean-to houses along the inside of the wall to accommodate visitors and laborers.
1870--Antonio Peralta builds Italianate Victorian farmhouse, which is the house we see here (much restored).
It was saved from demolition and turned into a history center and interpretive landscape.
www.peraltahacienda.org/pages/main.php?pageid=1&pagec... 