Lake Merritt

The Camron-Stanford House is the last of the 19th-century Victorian mansions that once surrounded Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. It was the home to a series of influential families, and in 1907, became the city's first museum.

The Lakeside Apartments District neighborhood, also known as The Gold Coast, and simply as The Lakeside, is one of Oakland's historic residential neighborhoods between the Downtown district and Lake Merritt. In the context of a Cultural Heritage Survey, the City of Oakland officially named most of the blocks of the neighborhood "The Lakeside Apartments District," and designated it as a local historic district with architecturally significant historic places, and Areas of Primary Importance (APIs). The greater neighborhood includes the interior blocks officially designated as a local historic district and the 'Gold Coast' peripheral areas along Lakeside Drive, 20th Street, and the west edge of Lake Merritt, areas closer to 14th Street and the Civic Center district, and blocks adjacent to downtown along Harrison Street. The district is characterized by a predominance of rent-stabilized apartments, mixed-use buildings, and a long history of regional mass transit connections serving its central location. In recent years, mid-rise, mixed-use, market rate, and affordable rental housing has been planned, proposed, approved, constructed, and inhabited. At the present, other developers have proposed market-rate condominium skyscrapers and other high-rise towers which have idled in various stages of the planning process. From 2007 to 2009, the Oakland Planning Commission revised zoning and building height regulations for the neighborhood.

Children's Fairyland, U.S.A. is an amusement park, located in Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt. It was one of the earliest "themed" amusement parks in the United States. Fairyland includes 10 acres (4.0 ha) of play sets, small rides, and animals. The park is also home to the Open Storybook Puppet Theater, the oldest continuously operating puppet theater in the United States.Fairyland was built in 1950 by the Oakland Lake Merritt Breakfast Club, a local service club. The park was immediately recognized nationally for its unique value, and during the 1950s it inspired numerous towns to create their own parks. Walt Disney toured many amusement parks in 1950, including Children’s Fairyland, seeking ideas for what turned out to be Disneyland. He hired the first director of Fairyland, Dorothy Manes, to work at Disneyland as youth director, in which position she continued from the park's opening until 1972.Numerous artists have contributed exhibits, murals, puppetry, and sculptures to the park. Some of the better-known artists are Ruth Asawa and Frank Oz, who was an apprentice puppeteer in the park as a teenager.

The René C. Davidson Courthouse is a courthouse, part of the Alameda County Superior Court system. The courthouse is located in Oakland, California, USA. It is adjacent to Lake Merritt.

The Oakland Public Library is the public library in Oakland, California. Opened in 1878, the Oakland Public Library currently serves the city of Oakland, along with neighboring smaller cities Emeryville and Piedmont. The Oakland Public Library has the largest collection of any public library in the East Bay, featuring approximately 1.5 million items. It consists of a main library located in downtown Oakland, and 16 branch libraries throughout the city (see below). Special services within the Oakland Public Library system include the African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO), the Second Start Adult Literacy Program, and the Tool Lending Library

The Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County, at 525 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland, California, was built in 1928–29. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It has also been known as The Bellevue Club, as Women's Athletic Club, and as Bellevue Club Building.The Women's Athletic Club of Alameda was formed in 1926 and purchased the site. It hired architects Charles F.B. Roeth and E. Geoffrey Bangs to design their building. Its name was changed to "The Bellevue Club" in the 1990s.The building is a 47,000 square feet (4,400 m2) clubhouse, with a stucco exterior, plus an internal parking garage. It was built as a five-story (plus partial basement and attic) squarish footprint building, with a one-story section behind. A one-story garage addition at the rear was added in 1964. The interior spaces are Chateauesque or Classical Revival in style.

The Kaiser Engineering Building, also called the Raymond Kaiser Engineering Building, is a high-rise located in downtown Oakland, California. It has 25 stories and stands at 336 feet (102 m) tall.

Oakland's Civic Center neighborhood is a residential and public building district on the east side of Oakland's Central Business District. Its borders are roughly Downtown and Harrison Street to the west, the East Lake Neighborhood and Lakeshore Avenue to the east, the Lakeside Apartments District and 14th Street to the North, and Chinatown and 11th Street to the South.

The Bellevue-Staten is a historical building in Oakland, California. The Bellevue-Staten building was built in 1929. The building is listed to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1991. The The Bellevue-Staten is built in Art Deco and Spanish Colonial architecture, designed by Herman Carl Baumann. The Bellevue-Staten was built and still is an apartment building. Due to likeness to the building used in the 1984 movie 'Ghostbusters, locals call it the Ghostbusters Building. The Bellevue-Staten building is in the Adams Point neighborhood of Oakland.Architect Herman Carl Baumann (1890–1960), was born in Oakland in 1890 and had an architect office in San Francisco. Baumann died on April 6, 1960, in San Francisco. Baumann also desigened the Bellaire Tower and the Gaylord Hotel (1929) in San Francisco' Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District. Baumann designs are found in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento, over 500 apartment buildings. During World War II, he designed building for the United States Navy at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

Brooklyn Presbyterian Church is a historical building in Oakland, California. The Brooklyn Presbyterian Church was built in 1887. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 2017. The building was also home to the Grace Temple Baptist Church of Oakland. Also at the Brooklyn Presbyterian Church is the Parish Hall also was built in 1887. The 1887 buildings were designed by Samuel Newsom and Joseph Newsom, who also designed the fourth city hall building in Oakland. Architect, George Bordwell, may have been part of the design also. Brooklyn Presbyterian Church used the church from 1887 to 1972. The church has a three-stage 66-foot bell tower and larger stained glass windows. Sunday school classroom wings were added later. After the church closed, the building was vacant for sometime, in 2022 Strive Wealth Builders started converting the church in to a 21,300 square feet 42 unit housing unit and 5,450 square feet for other uses. The building is in the Clinton neighborhood.

Kaiser Convention Center is a historic, publicly owned multi-purpose building located in Oakland, California. The facility includes a 5,492-seat arena, a large theater, and a large ballroom. The building is #27 on the list of Oakland Historic Landmarks., and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.The building is located at 10 10th Street, in the Civic Center district of the city. It is next to the Oakland Museum, Laney College, Lake Merritt, and near the Lake Merritt BART station.

The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located adjacent to Oak Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street in Oakland, California. The museum contains more than 1.8 million objects dedicated to "telling the extraordinary story of California."