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Of the colleges and universities listed here, the University of California, Berkeley, has the most NRHP listings, with 22, including one NHL. Tied for second are Harvard University with 17 NRHP listing including two historic districts and five NHLs, and the University of Florida which has 17, including one historic district with 14 contributing ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
The California Historical Society (CHS) is the official historical society of California. It was founded in 1871, by a group of prominent Californian intellectuals at Santa Clara University . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was officially designated as the Californian state historical society in 1979.
Arden is a historic estate outside Harriman, New York, that was owned by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman and his wife, Mary Averell Harriman.By the early 1900s, the family owned 40,000 acres (63 sq mi; 160 km 2) in the area, half of it comprising the Arden Estate.
The campus sits on the historic Rancho San Pedro, the oldest land grant in the Los Angeles area. [15] The land was in the continuous possession of the Dominguez family through seven generations – from its concession to Juan Jose Domínguez in 1784 to its acquisition by the state of California for the university. The campus mascot is the Toro.
Christie Realty Building, also known as Wax Museum Building, is a historic two-story building located at 6765-6773 W. Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, California. It is best known for Hollywood Wax Museum, its 1965 to present tenant.
The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California, and the largest public university system in the United States. [1] It consists of 23 campuses and seven off-campus centers, which together enroll 457,992 students and employ 56,256 faculty and staff members. [ 1 ]
California State University, Northridge, was founded first as the Valley satellite campus of California State University, Los Angeles. It then became an independent college in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College, with major campus master planning and construction. In 1972, the university adopted its current name of California State ...