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Lick Observatory is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. [1] The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick of $700,000, equivalent to $24,497,407 in 2024.
Hotel Santa Ysabel on the road up Mt. Hamilton just across Smith Creek in 1895, Courtesy of San Jose Public Library, California Room. On August 26, 1861, while working for Josiah D. Whitney on the first California Geological Survey, William H. Brewer invited local San Jose preacher (and Brewer's personal friend) Laurentine Hamilton to join his company on a trek to a nearby summit.
San Diego: San Diego Natural History Museum: 12.4 m (est.) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 7 s (estimate) San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences: 30 ft (9.14 m) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 6.1 s San Francisco: Calico Labs: San Jose: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium: San Jose: The Harker School: Santa Barbara: Museum of Natural History: Currently ...
Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Palomar College Planetarium, San Marcos; Planetarium Projector and Science Museum, [19] a museum of planeteria at Big Bear Lake; Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, a purpose-built planetarium rendered in an Ancient Egyptian architectural style
The center is the continuation and expansion of a public observatory that has served San Francisco Bay Area schools and citizens with astronomy and science education programs since 1883. It is named after the father of hydraulic mining and benefactor of the original Oakland Observatory, Anthony Chabot .
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum was built in 1932, the Planetarium in 1936, the research library opened in June 1939. The Akhenaton Shrine was built in 1949. [2] The Peace Garden was added to the park in 2004 and dedicated by Rosicrucian Imperator Christian Bernard. In 2013, a new Alchemy Museum was announced for 2020.
Lick Observatory: 1881 Mount Hamilton, San Jose, California, US LightBuckets (commercial observatory) 2007 Rodeo, New Mexico, US LIGO: 1999: Hanford Site, Washington, US & Livingston, Louisiana, US, US Lindheimer Astrophysical Research Center (defunct) 1966–1995 Evanston, Illinois, US Llano de Chajnantor Observatory: 2005 Atacama Desert, Chile
San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Arts 1984 Museum of Modern Mythology: San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Closed following the Loma Prieta earthquake. 1989 Natural World Museum: San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Education A mobile museum focused on environment concerns. 2009 New Langton Arts