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The City Hall is depicted on the city seal of Oakland. Oakland City Hall in 1917. The building was designed by New York–based architecture firm Palmer & Hornbostel in 1910, after winning a nationwide design competition. [5] The building, constructed in the Beaux-Arts style, resembles a "rectangular wedding cake". [5] It consists of three tiers.
A nine-story section was later added to the same building. [3] It remained the tallest building in the city until 1914, when the Oakland City Hall, at 320 feet (98 m), became the tallest. [4] At the time it was built, the City Hall was the first high-rise government building in the United States and the tallest building west of the Mississippi ...
J. Mora Moss House is a boldly romantic Carpenter Gothic style Victorian home located within Mosswood Park in Oakland, California.It was built in 1864, bought by Oakland in 1912 and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1960 at which point it was pronounced "One of the finest, if not the finest, existing examples of Gothic architecture of French and English influence as ...
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In 1896, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on a young Jack London giving speeches in what was then called "City Hall park". [4] The open space in front of the city hall was part of Oakland's Administrative Buildings project that included the redevelopment of the city center in 1994. [5] [6] 1998 marked the completion of the renovated plaza.
Joaquin Miller Park is a large open space park in the Oakland Hills owned and operated by the city of Oakland, California.It is named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller, who bought the land in the 1880s, naming it "The Hights" [sic], and lived in the house preserved as the Joaquin Miller House.
The Clorox Building, viewed from 12th Street. The first office building, at 14th and Broadway, opened on December 18, 1973. The first skyscraper, the Clorox Building, opened next door in 1976. However, construction stalled, and by the 1980s the mall still hadn't been built and most of the site was still vacant.
Downtown Oakland from Lake Merritt Aerial view of Downtown Oakland and Lake Merritt Lionel J. Wilson/Broadway Building at 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Detail of the Romanesque Revival Tribune Tower. The building serves as a quintessential Oakland landmark, timepiece, and navigation aid, as its unique green roof and massive red neon sign and clock ...