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As Santa Clara Valley's mercantile and financial center for the past 100 years, San Jose's downtown historic commercial district is significant both from a historic and an architectural perspective. The downtown commercial district retains the highest concentration of older buildings in the downtown, which reflects the best examples of ...
For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. [3] Permanent European presence in the area came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portolà and Junípero Serra, about sixty miles (100 km) to the south.
San Francisco-San Jose stagecoach begins operating. [7] 1851 San Jose Weekly Visitor newspaper begins publication. [8] College of Notre Dame established. [1] 1852 – San Jose Foundry in business. [9] 1853 – Hook and Ladder Company No.1 organized. [9] 1855 San Jose Telegraph newspaper begins publication. [8] San Jose City Hall built on North ...
January 21, 1982 (233 W. Santa Clara St. San Jose: 17: Pedro de Lemos House: Pedro de Lemos House: January 10, 1980 (100–110 Waverley Oaks: Palo Alto: 18: Dohrmann Building
The Hensley Historic District is named after Helen Mary (née Crosby; 1831–1917) and Samuel J. Hensley (c. 1816–1866), they were active during the early formation of the state and in the Bear Flag Revolt. [4] [6] The Hensley name is also used for the street in San Jose, and the downtown "Hensley Block" at Market and Santa Clara Streets. [7]
The Messina Orchard was later reduced to 4.96 acres (2.01 ha). The property is a rectangular plot situated southeast of the junction of North Capitol Avenue and Mabury Road in San Jose, California. Within this parcel lie five structures. The Stefano and Marie Messina house, built in 1935, is a Spanish Revival-style home with a matching garage ...
Fire Department Grows, San Jose Mercury News, 20 November 1955; Laffey, Glory Anne, Cynthia James, Robert Detlefs, Leslie Hurst Scarlett, and John G. Scarlett (Archives and Architecture). City of San Jose Historic Resources Inventory Phase II Summary Report. Approved by the San Jose City Council, November 17, 1992
The Alameda is a historic district of Central San Jose, California, west of Downtown San Jose.The district is centered on an alameda (Spanish for tree-lined street), a historic portion of El Camino Real connecting Downtown San Jose to Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and includes the smaller, surrounding neighborhoods to the north and east, like College Park and St. Leo's.