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...
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A restored old-time industrial/warehouse-style window and its sliding iron shutter--very helpful in case of fire. These became common in San Francisco--perhaps not until after the Earthquake and Fire in 1906??--although I think of them as being from the 1860s-90s.
Some old buildings from that era on both sides of the Bay have been preserved, "retrofitted" to withstand a big shake, and put into use as stores, office, restaurants. This one's in Berkeley.
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Panorama from the second Tier.
IPhoneography.
For those interested in more, especially the acoustics, see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_M._Davies_Symphony_Hall
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See adjacent frame for more information.
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A handsome and commodious building on campus that helps in staying fit. UC Berkeley.
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