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    City Hall Apartment Building

    CITY HALL APARTMENT BUILDING BUILT IN 1914 BY MAYOR JOHN J. MCNAMARA, GEORGE J. WINKLEMAN AND JAMES E. MCNAMARA 1st APARTMENT BUILDING IN MARTINEZ. BUILT DURING REFINERY BOOM. UNIQUE BECAUSE IT...

    CITY HALL APARTMENT BUILDING BUILT IN 1914 BY MAYOR JOHN J. MCNAMARA, GEORGE J. WINKLEMAN AND JAMES E. MCNAMARA 1st APARTMENT BUILDING IN MARTINEZ. BUILT DURING REFINERY BOOM. UNIQUE BECAUSE IT...

      Peter J. Shields

      THIS GROVE IS DEDICATED TO PETER J. SHIELDS FOUNDER OF THE DAVIS CAMPUS PATRON OF ALL AGRICULTURE BENEFACTOR TO STUDENTS EMINENT JURIST HUSBANDMAN ADMIRER OF TREES FRIEND TO MAN IN HONORED...

      THIS GROVE IS DEDICATED TO PETER J. SHIELDS FOUNDER OF THE DAVIS CAMPUS PATRON OF ALL AGRICULTURE BENEFACTOR TO STUDENTS EMINENT JURIST HUSBANDMAN ADMIRER OF TREES FRIEND TO MAN IN HONORED...

        Marines Memorial Club

          Amazing Space Studio and Gallery

            Massif de Plantes Terre de Bruyere

              Carriage House

              CARRIAGE HOUSE The carriage was a major means of local transportation around the turn of the century. Muir never owned an automobile and preferred to walk whenever possible. The Muir/Strentzel...

              CARRIAGE HOUSE The carriage was a major means of local transportation around the turn of the century. Muir never owned an automobile and preferred to walk whenever possible. The Muir/Strentzel...

                Benicia Arsenal

                  Claude Chana

                    Murphy WIndmill

                      W. W. Powers Building

                        W.W. Powers Building 209, 211, 213, 215 W. Miner St. Originally built in 1879 to accommodate three separate businesses, this structure became the Power's Hotel, a fine two-story, twenty-room...

                        W.W. Powers Building 209, 211, 213, 215 W. Miner St. Originally built in 1879 to accommodate three separate businesses, this structure became the Power's Hotel, a fine two-story,...

                        Baroque Column

                        This column typifies 17th century art and architecture. Ornamentation and textile designs cover  most of the twisted column shaft. It demonstrates that in spite of distractions and deviations,...

                        This column typifies 17th century art and architecture. Ornamentation and textile designs cover  most of the twisted column shaft. It demonstrates that in spite of distractions and deviations,...

                        • louisiana
                        • new orleans
                        • architecture

                        Boatbuilders by the Bay

                          Alaskan Hotel and Bar

                            The Mukilteo Research Station

                              Ferries and Freight on San Francisco Bay

                                Earl K. Long State Park

                                • louisiana
                                • state park

                                African Column

                                In ancient Egyptian temples, the shape of a lotus or flower in symbolic of the integration of different aspects of a single being.

                                In ancient Egyptian temples, the shape of a lotus or flower in symbolic of the integration of different aspects of a single being.

                                • louisiana
                                • new orleans
                                • architecture

                                Puuhonua

                                THIS ANCIENT HAWAIIAN SANCTUARY (PUUHONUA WAS PRESERVED THROUGH THE FORESIGHT OF CHARLES R. BISHOP WHO ADDED IT TO THE BISHOP ESTATE. WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII, THE TRUSTEES OF...

                                THIS ANCIENT HAWAIIAN SANCTUARY (PUUHONUA WAS PRESERVED THROUGH THE FORESIGHT OF CHARLES R. BISHOP WHO ADDED IT TO THE BISHOP ESTATE. WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII, THE TRUSTEES OF...

                                  Bill Ray

                                  BILL RAY DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVANT CHAMPION OF ALASKAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FRIEND OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA IN WHOSE HONOR THIS BUILDING IS NAMED AND DEDICATED BILL RAY CENTER MARCH 3. 1977  

                                  BILL RAY DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVANT CHAMPION OF ALASKAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FRIEND OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA IN WHOSE HONOR THIS BUILDING IS NAMED AND DEDICATED BILL RAY CENTER MARCH 3. 1977