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San Jose, California building and structure stubs (67 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in San Jose, California" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Before Caltrain, College Park was a station on Southern Pacific's Peninsula Commute line, in fare zone 6 (brown). [6] It is mentioned in Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild as the location at which the stolen canine protagonist is fenced, beginning his journey away from civilization.
De Mattei Court — named after Michael de Mattei of San Jose Ravenna Paste Company. [8] [failed verification] Delmas Avenue (downtown San Jose) — Antoine Delmas, who owned the French Gardens tract. [9] Di Fiore Drive — named after the Di Fiore family and their cannery and orchard operations in the nearby Burbank neighborhood.
The Plaza de César Chávez is an urban plaza and park in Downtown San Jose, California. [1] The plaza's origins date to 1797 as the plaza mayor of the Spanish Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, making it the oldest public space in Northern California. The plaza was rededicated after Californian civil rights activist César Chávez in 1993.
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Spanish Colonial Revival also provided California with a new historic architectural mode. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, modernization and further consolidation characterized the downtown core. New growth patterns to the west and south of the center of the city changed the commercial desirability of the downtown core area of San Jose.
San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018. [20] San Jose is notable for its innovation, cultural diversity, [21] affluence, [22] and sunny and mild Mediterranean climate. [23]
Mayfair is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in the Alum Rock district of East San Jose.It is one of San Jose's most historic Chicano/Mexican-American districts and noted for being a center of the Chicano Movement and grassroots activists such as Californian civil rights leader César Chávez.