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May 26, 1983. The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated U.S. Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square block. It is bounded by S. First Street to the west, E. San Fernando Street to the south, S. Third Street to the east, and E. Santa Clara Street to the north, but also includes the south ...
This is a list of streets in San Jose, California, with descriptions, historic significance, and name origins. California State Route 85, known in part as the West Valley Freeway and the Stevens Creek Freeway. California State Route 87, known in part as the Guadalupe Freeway. California State Route 130, known in part as Mount Hamilton Road and ...
The San Francisco Bay Area's largest news organization, The Mercury News, is headquartered on St. James Park. Downtown San Jose has a large concentration of hotels and hospitality services in San Jose, including The Westin San Jose, the Hilton San Jose, Marriott San Jose, Sheraton San Jose, largely concentrated near the San Jose Convention Center.
October 29, 1982. The Moir Building, was formerly the Straford Hotel, and then in the 1930s named the St. James Hotel. [3] [4] It is a historic building located in downtown San Jose, California, next to the St. James Park. It was built in 1893–1894 and designed by W.D. Van Siclen. [2] The building was placed on the National Register of ...
San Jose. ZIP Code. 95113. SoFA (South First Area) is an arts, cultural, and entertainment district of Downtown San Jose, California. Home to numerous cultural institutions, art galleries, and theatre companies, including the Institute of Contemporary Art San José, the San José Opera, and the Silicon Valley Symphony, SoFA bills itself as ...
Mission San José was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont .) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68.
Fountain Alley is a pedestrian paseo in Downtown San Jose between 1st Street and 2nd Street. History View of the historic Bank of Italy Building from Fountain Alley. Fountain Alley's origins lie in the 19th century as a thin but prominent alley made up of mews and a horse trough, which gave it its name.
The Circle of Palms Plaza is a ring of palm trees encircling a California State Seal, located between the Fairmont San Jose Hotel, the KQED building (Silicon Valley Financial Center) and the San Jose Museum of Art. [5] [6] The concrete around the state seal contains quotes from the 1849 state constitutional convention in Monterey where San Jose ...