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Architecture

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San Jose Buildings

Here are a few buildings that I was admiring on a walk.

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Bank of Italy Building, which became Bank of America.
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Top of the Bank of Italy building.
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Historic 1904 building preserved until repair and development of building and surrounding land.
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Close up of KQED building, location of the world’s first radio station.
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The Great Seal, and also the spot of the annual ice skating rink in downtown.
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Family Court House.
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Once the main post office, now the San Jose Museum of Art.
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Downtown San Jose


Above is The Peralta Adobe; worth learning about. The oldest building in San Jose, the last remaining from our original pueblo homes, hand built in 1797 by its first occupant. Perhaps it should be called the Jose Manuel Gonzales Adobe. Jose Manuel Gonzales built the house, was a member of the Anza expedition, an Apache Native American, one of the founders of the Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe (San Jose’s original name in 1777), the second Mayor of San Jose, and the first resident and builder of this Adobe which is the oldest building in our city. Very interesting article about it here. And you can sit right by it with a pizza and a beer to ponder it, as it is preserved in the outdoor area of the San Pedro Square Market.