Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
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5000 Piedmont Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611
(510) 658-2588
www.mountainviewcemetery.org
Mountain View Cemetery is the most distinguished cemetery in the Bay Area. The hills of Oakland cradle one of the finest examples of a memorial park found on the West Coast. With its stately avenues and winding roadways, its native live oaks and imported Italian stone pines, its simple columbarium and elaborate mausoleums, Mountain View Cemetery is a wonderful example of early American culture and the lively spirit of early California.
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Mountain View is the resting place of famous figures and ordinary people, the principal players in California's and San Francisco Bay's dramatic settlement. People like author Frank Norris, artist Thomas Hill, architects Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, captains of industry such as powerful railroad builder and banker Charles Crocker and industrialist Henry J. Kaiser are buried or interred here.
As Americans moved westward, man had achieved dominion over the land, overcoming hardships and nature to continue the march to California. But as man triumphed over his environment, he also came to question his place in nature. Mountain View Cemetery is an outgrowth of this contemplation.
Mountain View is distinguished from other cemeteries by its architect's vision of man and nature and their relationship to each other. Mountain View serves as an example of the American search for a civilized life in harmony with the environment.
Oakland, CA 94611
(510) 658-2588
www.mountainviewcemetery.org
Mountain View Cemetery is the most distinguished cemetery in the Bay Area. The hills of Oakland cradle one of the finest examples of a memorial park found on the West Coast. With its stately avenues and winding roadways, its native live oaks and imported Italian stone pines, its simple columbarium and elaborate mausoleums, Mountain View Cemetery is a wonderful example of early American culture and the lively spirit of early California.
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Mountain View is the resting place of famous figures and ordinary people, the principal players in California's and San Francisco Bay's dramatic settlement. People like author Frank Norris, artist Thomas Hill, architects Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, captains of industry such as powerful railroad builder and banker Charles Crocker and industrialist Henry J. Kaiser are buried or interred here.
As Americans moved westward, man had achieved dominion over the land, overcoming hardships and nature to continue the march to California. But as man triumphed over his environment, he also came to question his place in nature. Mountain View Cemetery is an outgrowth of this contemplation.
Mountain View is distinguished from other cemeteries by its architect's vision of man and nature and their relationship to each other. Mountain View serves as an example of the American search for a civilized life in harmony with the environment.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View_Cemetery_(Oakland,_California)
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Coordinates: 37°50'6"N 122°14'13"W
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- San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery 129 km
- Dracena Park 0.9 km
- Rockridge 1.3 km
- Glen Highlands 1.5 km
- Upper Piedmont 1.9 km
- Temescal 2 km
- North Oakland Regional Sports Center 2.3 km
- Claremont area 2.6 km
- Warren Freeway - Hayward Fault 3.3 km
- Sibley Volcanic Preserve 3.7 km
- San Francisco Bay 14 km
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