The Oakland Preservation Park

Occupying two blocks in the heart of downtown Oakland, Preservation Park is a Victorian neighborhood, a unique collection of historic residences transformed into the City’s most innovative workplace and event center. All but five of the structures on the two-block site were demolished. The construction of a new freeway adjacent to Preservation Park also threatened to destroy a significant percentage of the neighborhood’s historic Victorian homes. To preserve these historic assets, the City of Oakland created a public/private partnership to relocate the endangered buildings and to renovate the regrouped 16 residential structures for a new life as a business neighborhood.

 

 

University Of California Berkeley (UC Berkekley)

The University of California was chartered in 1868. UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre campus with a 178-acre main campus. I toured the main Library, the Charles Franklin Doe memorial Library, one of the many buildings listed in the National Registry of Historic Places.



The main entrance patio

The Doe Library

The bronze entrance to the north reading room

The clock tower in the center of the campus

The North reading room

The South reading room

The bulletin board of the free speech cafe

The reflecting pool and the clock tower and Doe library

A out side reading/study area

A preserved grove very old red wood trees on campus

The free speech cafe

The Berkeley BART platform

The dome of the Berkeley BART station

Oakland's Architechtural Doorways and Windows

San Francisco gets all the tourists which is okay by me. Living in Oakland for the last month I was able to discover the architechural gems around Oakland. Unfortunately many are destined to be demolished in the name of progress.