Near the main entrance to the University of California, Santa Cruz lies the Cowell Lime Works Historic District. We recently wrote about about the regions lime history an...
This retaining wall and stairs are one of the distinctive features of Walnut Avenue. The Pratchner family lived at the top of these stairs and George Pratchner built the...
Does form always follow function? Not if the British have anything to say about it. Broadway Tower is a folly located on a hill in Worcestershire, England, where beacons...
Before it was subdivided in the 1940s, the broad street now known as “Chrystal Terrace” was just narrow “Christal Lane” running from Mission Street to a farm house surrou...
When many people think of Alcatraz, visions of a high security prison come to mind. For most of us, it’s that island in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge in San...
The House of Lime Today’s Cardiff House has had many occupants over its 151 year history. Except for the University, they all have had one thing in common – t...
It was March of 1936, in the farms of southwest California. The woman pictured above had just sold her tires as a last, desperate effort to barter another day’s worth of...
The main entrance to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) is gateway not only to a world class institution of higher learning, but also to the Cowell Lime Works...
Capturing and viewing still images has changed the way humans look at and understand the world around them for centuries. Paintings and drawings took hours to create but...
There have been stairs going up Mission Hill from here for over 100 years. The stairs here today were built after 1964. The retaining wall, however, is considerably older...
