History
What’s in a style
Wood no longer dressed like stone: Stick-style
Alameda is famous for its Victorian-era homes built during Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 to 1901. One of these, in the Stick style, is pictured on the right.
City Meeting Calendar
Monday, March 20
- 7 p.m. Public Utilities Board Meeting. Alameda Municipal Power Service Center, 2000 Grand St.
Tuesday, March 21
100 Years Later: Remembering Robert Strehlow
The 100th anniversary of the opening of Neptune Beach is fast approaching. Neptune Beach once occupied the shoreline along Central Avenue between today’s McKay Avenue and Page Street. The resort welcomed its first guests on March 31, 1917.
Help Clean Up for MLK Day of Service
Since 1983, Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 16 this year) has been designated a day of service. Residents can get started early on Saturday, Jan. 14, from 9 a.m. to noon, when Alameda Point Partners and the city of Alameda Public Works Department host a shoreline cleanup event.
Prolific Physicians Called Alameda Home
In 1916 Dr. Chauncey Penwell Pond and his wife, Josephine Kibby Pond, filed a plat map with Alameda County. They had purchased property on Alameda’s East End. The plat map showed plans for a housing development along a street that the Ponds chose to name “Sterling Avenue.”
