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Photograph. St. Joseph's Academy Peralta Park St. Mary's Junior College. (On back of photo) "College of California - In the early 1850's the settled part of Oakland was around the foot of Broadway, extending up about to 5th Street. In 1853, Rev. Henry Durant opened a private school for boys in a rented room on Broadway with just three pupils. This developed into the College School, later known at the College of California (for boys) which opened in two large buildings on 12th St. at about Webster and Harrison Sts. in a park among old oaks. It grew until it occupied the four blocks bounded by 12th & 14th Sts., and Franklin and Harrison Sts. On March 23, 1868, it was turned over to the state which added a department of agriculture and opened the University of California in the college buildings. Four years later its new buildings in Berkeley were completed and the university moved into them."; "St. Joseph's Academy, Peralta Park, St. Mary's Junior College, Posen Hotel". (4/2002, G. Weininger): Peralta Park's complex history, which includes Horace Carpentier, Mayor Frank Mott, the Southern Pacific Railroad and development of the Oakland Auditorium, can be found in DeWitt Jones, Oakland Parks and Playgrounds, 1935, in the Oakland Library's California History Room.