Telegraph 51st 1887

Description:
Bridge over Temescal Creek, Telegraph Avenue and (present-day) 51st. Street (looking south), Temescal district, Oakland, Calif. Stamped at lower left, beneath the photograph: "Frank W. Epperson". Handwritten beneath the photograph at lower right: "Oakland". Narrow-gauge steam train to the new Berkeley campus of the state university waits outside the horse car barn to the right (west). The Cattaneo Building (also known as the Brick House), with its covered sidewalk, can be seen on the left.

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Date of Document:
1887 (Ted Wurm note lists 1889)

Document Author:
Frank W. Epperson (?)

Geographic Location:
Telegraph Avenue and 51st Street, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
The steam train operated on Telegraph Avenue between the car barn, located immediately south of Temescal Creek (present-day 51st Street) and the state university campus in Berkeley from 1877 to 1892 (the bridge over the creek is in the foreground). The Cattaneo Building (5004-5010 Telegraph Avenue), completed circa 1872, is considered to be the oldest surviving commercial structure in Temescal. It was designated a city landmark in 1983.