Category: Oakland Heritage Alliance

Oakland Heritage Alliance’s Walking Tour of Richmond Blvd is Sunday August 13 at 10AM

Richmond Boulevard

Walk along Glen Echo Creek, one of Oakland’s living creeks, where a charming residential neighborhood was developed between 1895 and the 1920s and has structures by Frederick Riemers, Julia Morgan, A. W. Smith, and C. M. MacGregor with surviving elements from the “City Beautiful” movement. Although scarred by freeway incursion, it remains a unique, tranquil setting in our city and boasts fine examples of California bungalows, Mission and Mediterranean style homes. A mostly level walk, optional pedestrian staircase at the end of tour. Wheelchair accessible before the optional pedestrian staircase.

Tour Leader: Valerie Winemiller

Meet: The pergola, Croxton Avenue and Richmond Boulevard

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/richmond-boulevard-tickets-668224907687?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bio: OHA summer tours combine two of Valerie Winemiller’s favorite activities: walking and looking at old buildings. She has led the Richmond Boulevard and the Broadway Auto Row tours each several times. As an activist in the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood since 1974, Valerie has written and illustrated a number of local history articles for that neighborhood’s newsletter, and some which have appeared in the OHA News as well, including a history of the innovative–but barely mourned–MacArthur Broadway Shopping Center. As an OHA member, she has advocated for preservation issues at various public hearings before city boards and the city council. She is a retired illustrator.

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