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History Park San Jose |
95112 San Jose, CA, United States of America (USA) (California) |
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635 Phelan Avenue
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| Floor area | 140 000 m² / 1 506 947 ft² |
Open Air Museum
- Passenger cars
- Fire Brigade
- Trams
- Carriages
- Railway Technique
- Craft
- Printing technology
- Biology / Medicine
- Food and beverage production
- Lamps and Light
- Radio and Kommunication in general
- Post
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Opening times
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Grounds: 8am – 5pm Houses: Noon – 4pm or Noon – 5pm closed on the most public holidays |
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Status from 12/2018
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Free except during special events | ||||
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| Homepage | historysanjose.org/wp | ||||
historysanjose.org 
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San Jose is an economic, cultural and political center of Silicon Valley, and the largest city in Northern California, located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay. History Park is located at the south end of Kelley Park at the corner of Senter Road and Phelan Avenue. Public transitRail service to and from San Jose is provided by Amtrak (the Sacramento–San-Jose Capitol Corridor and the Seattle–Los-Angeles Coast Starlight), Caltrain (commuter rail service between San Francisco and Gilroy), ACE (commuter rail service to Pleasanton and Stockton), and the local VTA light rail system connecting downtown to Mountain View, Milpitas, Campbell, and Almaden Valley, operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Historic streetcars from History Park operate on the light rail lines in downtown during holidays.AirSan Jose is served by Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.HighwaysU.S. 101 runs south to the California Central Coast and Los Angeles, and then runs north up near the eastern shore of the San Francisco Peninsula to San Francisco.I-280 also heads to San Francisco, but goes along just to the west of the cities of San Francisco Peninsula. I-880 heads north to Oakland, running parallel to the southeastern shore of San Francisco Bay. I-680 parallels I-880 to Fremont, but then cuts northeast to the eastern cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| Description | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: ExhibitsPeriod exhibits include a doctor's office, a dentist's office (complete with an old foot-pedal-powered drill), fruit barn (packing shed), blacksmith shed, a livery stable (US terminology for a business that rented out horse-drawn carriages), a working print shop, a gas station, the Pacific Hotel, the Empire Fire House, the Bank of Italy (precursor to the Bank of America), a post office and a number of houses of early Santa Clara Valley settlers. The fruit barn not only has many farm implements and devices from the period, but also displays hundreds of photographs documenting the area's development. It also includes a collection of fruit picker wooden "box ends" from the families and companies of fruit growers from the Valley's history. Other attractions A 115-foot scale replica of the San Jose Electric Light Tower that used to tower 237 feet over downtown San Jose Santa Ana School, a one-room schoolhouse, built in 1871 and originally located in Hollister, in the Santa Ana Valley in San Benito County. Santa Ana School was used as schoolhouse for grades one through eight from 1872-1967. SJSU College of Education Alumni Board raised funds to move the schoolhouse to History San Jose, renovate it, and dedicate it in 1998. Portuguese Historical Museum Viet Museum Ng Shing Gung, a former Chinatown religious and community center that is now a museum of local Chinese-American history Paulson House, an 1890s Queen Anne-style residence with local history exhibits from the California Pioneers of Santa Clara County Hellenic Heritage Museum, a museum of Greek heritage, operated by the Hellenic Heritage Institute. The California Trolley and Railroad Corporation houses and operates restored antique trolleys, both horse-drawn and electric, and automobiles, both gasoline and battery powered, along with other antique trolleys and cars awaiting restoration. The Leonard and David McKay Gallery, opened on March 13, 2005, contains a collection of paintings of people, buildings, and landscapes from in and around San Jose. The Perham Collection* of Early Electronics, previously at Foothills Electronics Museum. Steam locomotive Southern Pacific 1215 and tender in a static display. Weekdays, tours are offered by paid staff, often for local students on class field trips. On weekends, selected exhibit buildings are staffed on a rotating schedule by volunteers, who also operate a vintage trolley over the length of the park, including under the Light Tower replica. *Perham CollectionThe Perham Collection of Early Electronics is the legacy of radio pioneer Douglas McDonald Perham (1887-1967), an early wireless experimenter and radio broadcaster. Perham, a talented technician, was also a life-long collector. The collection parallels Perham's career and documents early electronics in the West, particularly the Santa Clara Valley. |
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