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The Oakland Public Library is the public library in Oakland, California. Opened in 1878, the Oakland Public Library currently serves the city of Oakland, along with neighboring smaller cities Emeryville and Piedmont. The Oakland Public Library has the largest collection of any public library in the East Bay, featuring approximately 1.5 million ...
Following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake the Oakland Fire Department built a new station house on Shepherd Canyon Road and, upon completion, vacated the 1927 structure. In March 1930, the Montclair branch of the Oakland Public Library was opened on Mountain Blvd. near Thornhill Dr. to serve the growing village.
Glenview Branch Library: 4231 Park Boulevard Sept. 30, 1980: February 25, 1997 42 Asa White House: 604 East 17th Street November 4, 1980 43 Carnegie Libraries: (a) Golden Gate Branch (b) Melrose Branch (c) Temescal Branch (d) 23rd Avenue Branch (a) 5606 San Pablo Avenue (b) 4805 Foothill Blvd. (c) 5205 Telegraph Avenue (d) 1441 Miller Avenue
Oakland Library may refer to: Oakland Public Library, in Oakland, California; African American Museum and Library at Oakland, in Oakland, California; Oakland Public Library, in Oakland, Maine; Oakland Library, a branch of the Lee County Library in Georgia
Rockridge branch of the Oakland Public Library. The main thoroughfare in Rockridge is College Avenue. The district is bounded by 51st Street on the southern end and Berkeley's Elmwood district on the northern end. The College Avenue strip running through Rockridge is home to more than 80 restaurants, cafes and upscale retail stores, including ...
A primary example can be found in the 1927 Montclair, Oakland, firehouse, and in a more traditional English cottage-style in the 1930 Montclair branch library. Idora Park in north Oakland, California , is a four-square-block storybook architecture development begun in 1927 on the grounds of the old amusement park.
The district is also adjacent to Oakland's Snow Park a 4.2-acre (17,000 m 2), [24] public city park bordered by 19th Street, the Schilling Gardens Parcel, Harrison Street and Lakeside Drive. Snow Park, which is named after Oakland resident Henry Snow, was once the site of the first Oakland Zoo, the Sidney Snow Zoo, named after Henry Snow's son ...
In 1982, the East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS) was invited into the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, making it the first Oakland city library with a predominantly African American focused collection. The collection was housed in the entire left side of the library where the children's section of the library is now located.