White Mansion (Oakland, California)

Clinton is a neighborhood in Oakland, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 36 feet (11 m). Clinton started when brothers named Patten leased land on the east side of the San Antonio Slough from Vincent Peralta in 1850, and joined with others to found the town in 1852.Clinton and San Antonio joined in 1856 to form a new town called Brooklyn, named after the ship that had brought Mormon settlers to California in 1846. Brooklyn joined with nearby Lynn to incorporate in 1870 under the name Brooklyn. In 1872, Brooklyn voters approved their city's annexation by the city of Oakland.

California's 13th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California. Barbara Lee, a Democrat, has represented this district since January 2013. Currently, the 13th district consists of the northwestern portion of Alameda County. Cities in the district include Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Piedmont, and San Leandro. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+40, it is the most Democratic district in California.Prior to redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission of 2011, the 13th district was in southwestern Alameda County, anchored by Hayward and Fremont.

The Intertribal Friendship House (IFH) of Oakland is one of the oldest Native American-focused urban resource and community organizations in the United States. Founded in 1955, IFH was created by local residents, similarly to American Indian Center in Chicago. Beginning in 1952, the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) supported a plan to relocate Native Americans to urban areas, further encouraged by the Indian Relocation Act of 1956. The IFH has offered educational activities, elder and youth programs, holiday meals, counseling for social services, space for community meetings, conferences, receptions, memorials, and family affairs.

The Oakland Buddha is a statue of a Buddha placed in a traffic median in Oakland, California in 2009. The statue was placed by neighborhood resident Dan Stevenson who was upset about the frequent use of the median for illegal dumping. Stevenson attached the statue to the median using epoxy and rebar to deter theft of the figure. The city's Public Works Department initially stated that it would remove the statue after receiving a complaint about it, but backed off its plans to do so after receiving substantial opposition. After its installation, local Vietnamese residents made the statue into a Buddhist shrine for daily worship services. Following the installation of the statue and its conversion into a shrine, Oakland police stated that criminal activity in the area, including dumping, graffiti, drug dealing, and prostitution, had dropped by 82% as of 2014.

The Church of St. James the Apostle, or as it is known today as St. James Episcopal Church or Iglesia Episcopal de Santiago is an Episcopal church in Oakland, California, United States. The church has been providing weekly services without break since 1858. It is a California Historical Landmark.

Mr. Floppy's Flophouse was a mansion in East Oakland that at one time housed a bordello and saloon patronized by writer Jack London; in later years a picture of the writer was placed behind the elegant bar. In the early 1990s it was also the home to a well-known, wild underground party and rave. Mr. Floppy himself was said to be an elusive archeologist from Finland who, when not busy excavating an inverted pyramid thought to house the knowledge of all mankind, was hosting late night events in the bowels of one of Oakland's most notorious districts. The party that never happened, "Go Native" was shut down from Native American communities in Texas from online social networks! Picketers and some representing the party stood ground the night the party was held. That night sparked them all which began a slew of parties ranging from psytrance to dubstep around 2009. The flophouse had around 15-20 different rooms, with something different going on in each. In the main ballroom, DJ's and acts such as Psychic TV or Olli Wisdom would perform, while upstairs boasted any variety of acts ranging from a naked man playing sitar, to freestyle house, to a black light mushroom garden paradise. The organizers were granted by the City of Oakland all needed permits to host the events. It was the goal of the organizers to provide a fun and safe atmosphere for its patrons. At dawn it was not uncommon for George, the owner of the property, to appear in a wizard cape serving shrimp cups or noodle soups from behind his piano.

MetWest High School is a public high school in Oakland, California, United States. It is especially focused on learning through internships. The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) states that the school "has among the highest attendance rates, the highest California High School Exit Exam pass rates, and lowest suspension rates of all OUSD high schools".

Brooklyn is a former city in Alameda County, California, now annexed to Oakland, California. Brooklyn first formed from the amalgamation in 1856 of two settlements, the sites of which are both now within the city limits of Oakland: San Antonio and Clinton. The name Brooklyn commemorated the ship that had brought Mormon settlers to California in 1846. In 1870, Brooklyn absorbed the nearby town of Lynn, which housed a footwear industry, and incorporated as a city.The San Francisco and Oakland Railroad had built a station at San Antonio. When the Central Pacific Railroad took over the line in 1870, the name was changed to Brooklyn.In 1872, voters approved their city's annexation by Oakland. Afterward, when the Southern Pacific Railroad took over the rail line in 1883, the Brooklyn station name was changed to East Oakland.A post office was opened in Brooklyn in 1855; it became a branch of the Oakland post office in 1878.Looking at historical maps, Brooklyn is shown as a fairly large area, lying adjacent and to the south of Lake Merritt and the Piedmont tract, and adjacent and to the north of Alameda, the San Leandro Creek, and the town of San Leandro. Today this is East Oakland.

The Ellen Kenna House is a historic Victorian mansion in Oakland, California. It was built in 1888. It is 8,500 square feet. It was built by the widow of a murdered gold miner. Architect Augustus Laver who also designed the James C. Flood Mansion that is now home to the Pacific Union Club was its architect.It is at 1218 East 21st Street. In 2016 it sold to an investor for $1.95 million. It was used as a home for girls with syphilis. It has been used for film and caralogue shoots. It is in the Clinton neighborhood. It is being used as a co-living space and includes gardens.

The Cleveland Cascade is a 250-foot-long ornamental stairway near Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, with cascades in the center, designed in 1923 by Howard Gilkey. It opened with great civic pride as "one of the few things of this kind in the West".The Cascade was reportedly modeled after features in the hill towns of Italy. From the lakefront downhill end, wide concrete steps rise to a landing, then divide around a round-topped fountain niche and pool, and continue to the top following the middle landing as two narrow stairways on either side of a series of concrete bowls that form the cascade. Water flowed down over twenty concrete bowls past colored lights. It was adequately maintained into the early 1940s but then began to suffer from neglect and resulting disrepair. Until about 1950 the bowls were illuminated at night by colored lights, and an electric pump returned water from the pool to the top of the cascade. The lights and water were shut off sometime in the 1950s, and the bowls were filled in. As “Cleveland Stairs,” the Cascade never lost its popularity. The feature is an active pedestrian thoroughfare and popular with joggers.Over the past decade efforts have been underway to restore the Cascade to its past glory.

Laney College Football Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located on the Laney College campus in Oakland, California on the former site of Frank Youell Field. It is owned and operated by Laney College and is the home field of the Laney Eagles track & field and football teams. It is also the home field of the Oakland Roots SC soccer team of the USL Championship. For Roots games, the pitch is widened using a modular turf system. The stadium has room for 3,500 seated and up to 5,500+ with standing room.

San Antonio is a large district in Oakland, California, encompassing the land east of Lake Merritt to Sausal Creek. It is one of the most diverse areas of the city. It takes its name from Rancho San Antonio, the name of the land as granted to Luís María Peralta by the last Spanish governor of California.