Title:
Lake View Cottage on the 12th St. Dam [picture].
Creator:
Unknown.
Subject:
Resorts - California - Oakland - Pictorial works.
Restaurants - California - Oakland
- Pictorial works.
Saloons - California - Oakland - Pictorial works.
Lake View Cottage (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works.
Bellevue du Rendez-vous de
Chasse (Oakland, Calif.) - Pictorial works.
Description:
Title from item. From the Knowland Collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland
Public Library. Number in collection: 231. The heavily touched-up photograph depicts Lake View
Cottage at the 12th Street Dam in Oakland, with the adjacent former "House of
Blazes" restaurant, as it appeared on July 4, 1895. The badly mottled original is
framed with an inscription "Souvenir of Fourth of July 1895." Lake View
Cottage, situated at 15 12th Street, was operated as an inn, restaurant and saloon adjacent by
August Dupont through 1896. The cottage served as an expansion of an existing restaurant,
"Bellevue du Rendez-vous de Chasse" opened by chef Charles Blaise. The
restaurant became commonly known as "House of Blazes," adapted fromt he
proprietor's surname. The resort as shown sat on pilings over San Antonio Creek on the south
edge of the 12th Street Dam. The retouching was accomplished by graphic artists at the Oakland
Tribune prior to the publication of the image in 1952.
Publisher:
Oakland Public Library
Date:
1895 July 4
Type:
image
Format:
1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier:
copl_180
Knowland Neg. 231
Coverage:
Oakland (Calif.) - History - Pictorial works. ; Twelfth Street Dam (Oakland, Calif.) -
Pictorial works.
Rights:
public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.