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CONTEXTUAL VIEW OF TUCKER BUILDING FROM ACROSS JEFFERSON STREET, CAMERA FACING SOUTHEAST - Tucker Building, 1516 Jefferson Street and 595 Sixteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA
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CONTEXTUAL VIEW OF TUCKER BUILDING FROM ACROSS JEFFERSON STREET, CAMERA FACING SOUTHEAST - Tucker Building, 1516 Jefferson Street and 595 Sixteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA
Depicted place California; Alameda County; Oakland
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CAL,1-OAK,26-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: This building is a contributing structure to the Oakland Downtown district. The Oakland Cultural Heritage Survey describes the district as, "...an architecturally, historically, and functionally distinct area within central Oakland. It contains the City Hall and a strong concentration of well-preserved commercial buildings from about 1900 to 1929, spanning two boom periods for Oakland, the East Bay response to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, and the intense real estate and financial growth of the 1920s. These urbane, mostly Beaux-Arts inspired buildings display a general unity of style and scale, and represent many of the better-known Bay Area commercial architects of the period. In their siting and relation to each other, with 17-21-story "skyscrapers" punctuating lower construction, they represent an urban design termed "ideal" by City Beautiful planner Werner Hegemann in 1915, and gave Oakland a distinctive and much-photographed skyline. Downtown's development was one of a series of distinct stages whereby Oakland's commercial center moved north along Broadway from its original waterfront location in the 1850s, to Uptown (around 20th) in the 1930s. The economics of the era in which the 14th and Broadway district developed made it Oakland's office and financial center, in contrast to the Old Oakland district alterations and demolitions, in their historic relationships to one another, skyscrapers spaced among lower buildings creating a still-distinctive downtown Oakland skyline." According to the Oakland Cultural Heritage Survey: "[the Tucker Building] is an attractive example of small-scale 1920s storefront/light industrial architecture, and typifies the less intense development on the fringes of downtown."
  • Survey number: HABS CA-2645
  • Building/structure dates: 1924 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2104.photos.323934p
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Object location37° 48′ 15.98″ N, 122° 16′ 10.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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