Redwood Peak (1622 ft.) sadly, slightly outside city limitsOakland’s more or less only beach: Radio Beach, near the Bay Bridge Toll PlazaOakland’s current City Hall was completed in 1913 and designed to increase efficiency by housing all the various city offices in one building–including the City Jail, here in an upper floor, and used until at least the 1960s.The oldest existing church building in Oakland: the original sanctuary (now the chapter house) of St. James Episcopal, on 12th Ave. x Foothill, built 1860 at 17th Ave. x E14th and moved here. It’s a State and City historical landmark. (The larger, present sanctuary dates from 1886.)
The oldest standing building of any kind in Oakland is 301 Broadway, built 1857 as Mme. de St. Germain’s Oenophile Store, and mostly recently the Souley Vegan restaurant.
Longest set of public staircases: Lower & Upper Merriewood Steps, off Thornhill Drive (opposite Thornhill Ct., just beyond Thornhill Elementary School) in three flights, 99 + 168 + 123 = 390 steps:
Russell Yee 