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| This image shows the shoreline of Lake Merritt in about 1910. You can see the boathouse and other buildings around Lake Merritt, including Holy Names College, which stood where the Kaiser Center now stands. Holy Names College was founded in 1868 as a convent for six nuns who had been sent to minister to isolated California. Their pastor, Reverend Michael Aloysius King, built the first building on the shore of the brand-new Lake Merritt. That original building was then incorporated into the larger buildings you see here. By the 1890s, orchards had been planted around the school; there was an aviary as well as an aquarium, and a large park in front with trees and curving pathways. The school was in continuous operation at this site until 1957 when the land was sold to Kaiser Industries and a new Holy Names College built in the Oakland Hills. (See Oakland, The Story of a City, by Beth Bagwell, Presidio Press) | |||||||||
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