Temescal Park 1868

Description:
Real estate advertisement map of Temescal Park, unincorporated Alameda County. The area shown in this subdivision map is bounded by Linden's lane on the south (today's 45th Street) and Vernon Avenue (51st Street) on the north. The western boundary street is Telegraph Avenue (also referred to then as Telegraph Road). Lot frontages are along Temescal Street (48th Street), Cherry Street (Webster), Maple Street (Clarke), Birch Street (49th Street), Vernon Avenue (51st Street), and Telegraph Avenue Map shows Temescal Creek coming in from the northeast and crossing Telegraph Avenue at Vernon Avenue (51st Street). The western boundary of the Vernon Park subdivision is shown in the upper left corner. Temescal Park was part of the 600 acres that Solomon E. Alden owned about a mile north of Oakland's boundary at 36th Street, in the area known as Temescal. This was the first portion Alden platted and sold off. Descriptive text on the map reads: "Copied from the map filed in the Recorder's Office of Alameda County August 12th 1868 at 10 minutes past 8 o'c A.M."

Date of Document:
1868

Document Author:
Bacon and Company

Geographic Location:
Clarke Street and 49th Street, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
Beginning in the 1850s, Solomon E. Alden purchased what eventually amounted to 600 acres in Temescal. In 1868, he platted his first residential subdivision, Temescal Park, just east of the Telegraph road (today's Telegraph Avenue), between preset-day 49th Street and 51st Street, Oakland Calif. The Alden Reading Room, and then the Alden Branch Library (today s Temescal Branch Library), and the Alden Hotel were named after him. His daughter, Elsie, and her husband, John Edgar McElrath (1844-1907), split apart the original Alden mansion, creating three separate residences. In 1914, one of the residences was sold to the newly formed Baby Hospital Association, which in 1930 became Children s Hospital Oakland. Children s Hospital Oakland affiliated with UCSF in 2014 to become UCSF Benioff Children s Hospital Oakland.