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Photo, Print, Drawing Lakeshore Highlands, Bounded by Mandana Boulevard on the north, Excelsior Avenue and Park Boulevard on the south, Lakeshore Avenue on the west, and Carlston Avenue on the east, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

[ Data Pages from Survey HALS CA-167  ]

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Title

  • Lakeshore Highlands, Bounded by Mandana Boulevard on the north, Excelsior Avenue and Park Boulevard on the south, Lakeshore Avenue on the west, and Carlston Avenue on the east, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Names

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
  • Walter H. Leimert Company
  • Olmsted Brothers
  • Leimert, Walter H.
  • Ohlone Indians
  • Sather, Peder
  • Smith, F. M. "Borax"
  • Havens, Frank C.
  • Realty Syndicate Real Estate Development Company
  • Lakeshore Highlands Company
  • Havens, Wickham
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.
  • Olmsted, John Charles
  • Howard, Ebenezer
  • Strang, Fred N.
  • Lakeshore Homes Association
  • Farr, Stacy, historian
  • Pattillo, Chris, historian
  • Marar, Petra, historian
  • Monroe, Ellen, historian
  • Garrett, Cathy, historian
  • Marvin, Betty, historian
  • PGAdesign, sponsor
  • Stevens, Christopher M., transmitter
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 2000

Headings

  • -  suburbanization
  • -  suburban life
  • -  residential streets
  • -  houses
  • -  streets
  • -  walkways
  • -  stairways
  • -  canopy trees
  • -  lawns
  • -  median strips
  • -  landscape architects
  • -  gates
  • -  domestic life
  • -  streetcars
  • -  California--Alameda County--Oakland

Latitude / Longitude

  • 37.811031,-122.242347

Notes

  • -  Third Place Winner - 2022 HALS Challenge: Olmsted Landscapes
  • -  Significance: The Lakeshore Highlands development exemplifies a historically significant era of residential development in Oakland, when aesthetics, transportation advances, and new methods of real estate development combined to create a residential typology that reflected national trends and influenced the pattern of residential development in Oakland and beyond. Lakeshore Highlands became an early model for its developer, Walter H. Leimert Co., in partnership with the Olmsted Brothers, for later developments along the West Coast. Leimert attributed the success of Lakeshore Highlands notably to its homeowners' association, one of the earliest in the West Coast. The association and its governing documents, still operating, guide and regulate the occupancy and use of lots, buildings, and use of common park areas. The impact of this mechanism, popularized alongside the development pattern, is both site-specific and far-reaching. Some restrictions are defunct, like the racial covenant restricting the race of homeowners and residents, while others remain, requiring lots to be used only for single family homes and grass to be well-mowed. As a result, the location, appearance, construction pedigree, and design integrity of Lakeshore Highlands continues to express the story of this significant era of residential development in Oakland.
  • -  Survey number: HALS CA-167
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1895-1930 Initial Construction

Medium

  • Data Page(s): 14

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HALS CA-167

Source Collection

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

  • ca4523

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, Walter H. Leimert Company, Olmsted Brothers, Walter H Leimert, Ohlone Indians, Peder Sather, F. M. "Borax" Smith, et al. Lakeshore Highlands, Bounded by Mandana Boulevard on the north, Excelsior Avenue and Park Boulevard on the south, Lakeshore Avenue on the west, and Carlston Avenue on the east, Oakland, Alameda County, CA. Oakland Alameda County California, 2000. translateds by Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca4523/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, C., Walter H. Leimert Company, Olmsted Brothers, Leimert, W. H., Ohlone Indians, Sather, P. [...] Pgadesign, S. (2000) Lakeshore Highlands, Bounded by Mandana Boulevard on the north, Excelsior Avenue and Park Boulevard on the south, Lakeshore Avenue on the west, and Carlston Avenue on the east, Oakland, Alameda County, CA. Oakland Alameda County California, 2000. Stevens, C. M. M. & McPartland, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ca4523/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, et al. Lakeshore Highlands, Bounded by Mandana Boulevard on the north, Excelsior Avenue and Park Boulevard on the south, Lakeshore Avenue on the west, and Carlston Avenue on the east, Oakland, Alameda County, CA. trans by Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ca4523/>.