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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "apartment houses"
Calreta Court/ Piedmont Court - 260 High Street, by
Margaret Koch
This impressive Mission Revival apartment house was built in 1912 with William Bray as architect. It was called Piedmont Court, ... [Read more]
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Surfing: Although the Boardwalk was the primary commercial endeavor to capitalize on tourism at the beach, no history of Santa Cruz would be complete without a discussion of the city's most well known sport, surfing. Surfing, as far as anthropologists can trace, is estimated to be a thousand years ..." [More]
Excerpted from Resort and Recreation Development: Surfing, other recreational sites by Susan Lehmann
