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• History Pages: 43 - Go, Team, Go: The First Team Sport in Santa Cruz, ca. 1880
  In the days when even the largest buildings were built of wood, before fire sprinklers and copious water supplies, fire
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• History Pages: 47 - Santa Cruz gets an Octagon: downtown in the early 1880s
  ...irst iteration of our town clock). Stubbornly defying imagination, the two buildings became known as “Ely’s Block No. 1” and “Ely’s Block No. 2”. ...ive the courthouse more space. Following the 1894 fire that destroyed both buildings, that’s exactly what they did to build the second courthouse – later kn
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• History Pages: 49 - The Rise and Fall of Swanton House: 1884-87
  ...d building techniques and more skillful local builders allowed ever-larger buildings. In 1884, successful livery stable owner [[Swanton, Albion P.|A. P. Swanton The intense heat and embers from the fire endangered other nearby buildings but, with the help of the volunteer fire brigades, most of them were saved.
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• History Pages: 50 - Downtown expanded south in the 1880s
  ...to a a "hall". Such halls were common uses for upper floors of commercial buildings in those days. New buildings between Walnut and Lincoln replaced the aging structures of the first China
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• History Pages: 51 - Beach Hill: 1870-99
  ...[Carmelita Cottages]] (right) on Main Street. This collection of six small buildings is now a youth hostel. The front two cottages date from around 1872. Be sur
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• History Pages: 52 - Santa Cruz water system timeline
  ...esh water through the mission complex. Several branches supplied different buildings. Runoff went over the bluffs down to the San Lorenzo River bottomlands. (se
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• Panorama 1: Bird’s Eye View of Santa Cruz, 1870
  ...eable in skewed street directions and apparent distance. Some more distant buildings are drawn larger than life (e.g. Holy Cross church). ...treet goes up the hill, the lowest (partly hidden by trees) of the smaller buildings on the right may be the old mission grist mill, constructed in 1796. Chase
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• Panoramic views of Santa Cruz, 1870-1907
  ...ome cases, they may be the only surviving pictorial views of long-vanished buildings and other structures – even of entire streets and neighborhoods. ...ations (1879) contains a wealth of detailed sketches of houses, commercial buildings and other features. The 1879 timing of the publication is very helpful in c
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• Panorama 3: Bird's Eye View of Santa Cruz, 1877
  ...lithograph. The key proudly notes that the oldest of the surviving tannery buildings dates from the Jacob Kron tannery existing on that site in 1877.
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• Quite Contrary, The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love (2014 book)
  ...ooded downtown Santa Cruz. In later years, several fires destroyed Harry's buildings and crops.
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• Sidewalks of Washington Street
  ...ent of the downtown business district in the second half of the 1800s, the buildings and porches ran together, forming more-or-less continuous wood plank walkwa
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• Hühn, Hugo
  ...hich in 1866 became Front Street and Pacific Avenue). After erecting other buildings adjacent to the first, Hühn returned to Germany.
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• 1877 Bird’s Eye View of Santa Cruz
  ...lithograph. The key proudly notes that the oldest of the surviving tannery buildings also dates from 1877, when it was owned by [[Kron, Jacob|Jacob Kron]].
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• Jails
  ...additional properties along Front Street, beginning with the one with the buildings labeled "Office" and "Tin & Plumbing". That "Office" structure was about wh
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• Mission Santa Cruz
  ...ar, in a new location on higher ground, construction began on a complex of buildings that formed the early nucleus of Santa Cruz. In 1931, Phelan family heir [[
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• Pope, Horace
  ...rated the hotel with the help of their two daughters . . . the last of its buildings was torn down in 1919."
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• Laurel School
  ....|William Weeks]], and constructed in 1930. The previous two Laurel School buildings were on a site now occupied by [[Laurel Park]], adjacent to the existing bu
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• Weeks, William H.
  ...inforced-concrete construction methods explain the longevity of his public buildings, which can be found throughout the state.
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• Moore, Eli
  ...leck]]. In 1847-48 Moore built a log house that became one of the earliest buildings in today’s downtown Santa Cruz, on land bounded by today's Pacific Avenue
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• Lynch, Sedgwick J.
  ...the 1850s through the 1870s. He built the 1866 County Courthouse, several buildings along Pacific Avenue and probably both the Davis & Cowell and railroad whar
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