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The city hall of Pleasant Hill was designed by architect Charles Moore. Completed in the late 20th century, it has won several awards for architectural design. For most of its history, Pleasant Hill did not have a true downtown or Main Street. In 1991, the city began planning the redevelopment of the area around the intersection of Monument and ...
Asian Pacific arts, culture and history Oakland Aviation Museum: Oakland: Alameda: East Bay: Aviation: Formerly the Western Aerospace Museum, over 30 vintage and modern airplanes, both civilian and military, and other displays that highlight noted aviators and innovators Oakland Museum of California: Oakland: Alameda: East Bay: Multiple
The history of Oakland, a city in the county of Alameda, California, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement by Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon in the 19th century. The area now known as Oakland had seen human occupation for thousands of years, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into ...
This list of museums in California is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Oakland Chinese Presbyterian Church & Annex: 265-73 8th Street May 3, 1994 116 St. Paul's Episcopal Church: 114 Montecito Avenue May 24, 1994 117 University High School / North Oakland Senior Center: 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way 118 Temple Sinai: 362 28th Street December 13, 1994 119 Oakland Museum of California: 1000 Oak Street
Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, 1868, oil on canvas William Keith, Early Oakland, 7th and Adeline Streets, The Southern Pacific Depot, 1867, watercolor The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located at 1000 Oak Street in Oakland, California.
In 1853, a preparatory academy was founded in Oakland that soon became the College of California, and in 1869, the first campus of the University of California. The university moved just north to Berkeley in the 1870s. [29] During the 1850s, just as gold was discovered in California, Oakland started growing and further developing because land ...
2001 Entry and Library windows for Christ the King Catholic School (Pleasant Hill, California) 2002 Vestibule window for St. Theresa Church, Oakland, CA. 2002 Reading Room windows Hollywood Branch Library, Portland, OR. 2003 Northside Community Center, San Jose, CA. 2003 Clerestory windows, Dublin Public Library, Dublin, CA.