Grand Street History Walking Tour
Schedule
Sat May 11 2024 at 10:00 am
Location
Rittler Park | Alameda, CA
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Grand Street — Otis Drive to Santa Clara AvenueStroll along the Gold Coast’s main thoroughfare with Adam Gillitt and Dennis Evanosky. Learn how Leviathan and Linnet streets became Grand Street and Santa Clara Avenue. Grand Street offers an open-air textbook of the architectural styles that made Alameda so attractive. (None of them “Victorian,” by the way.) Dennis will describe the shoreline as it once was and discuss how Utah Construction changed everything (with the voters’ approval). We’ll stop at and enjoy what Alameda Museum’s retired curator George Gunn calls a “string of pearls.” We’ll also visit a street whose residents politely asked that the attic of a nearby famous house be removed so they could enjoy the morning light. Did they succeed? We’ll find out. Tickets are $20.
Photo: George W. Emmons created the first landfill development along Alameda’s South Shore. Work began in 1910, but the first seawall collapsed into San Francisco Bay. By 1915, the site was ready for development. Emmons extended Dayton Avenue across Grand Street. This extension was on land that Joseph Leonard once owned. Leonard sold this property and his home at the foot of Union Street to Emmons in 1900. In this photo from the 1920s, the Emmons Memorial Column and steps on a small wharf can be seen at the foot of Grand Street. Those steps led members of the Encinal Yacht Club to their clubhouse further out on the Bay. Alameda Museum photo.
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Where is it happening?
Rittler Park, 526 Grand St, Alameda, CA 94501, United States,Alameda, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: