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Joaquin Miller House

The Joaquin Miller House, also known as The Abbey, is a historic house in , a public park in the Oakland Hills area of , United States.
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  • Type: Historic building
  • Description: historic place in Oakland, California
  • Also known as: “Joaquin Miller Abbey”, “Joaquin Miller Home”, and “The Abbey”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Joaquin Miller Park and Oakland California Temple.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a large open space park in the owned and operated by the city of , . It is named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller, who bought the land in the 1880s, naming it "The Hights", and lived in the house preserved as the Joaquin Miller House.

Church
Photo: Hurling7, Public domain.
The is a temple of in Oakland, California. Notable for its five-spire design influenced by Asian architecture, the temple stands on a hill with panoramic views of the . is situated 2,000 feet southwest of Joaquin Miller House.

Museum
Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.
, located in , is a center for learning in Earth and space science, which features interactive exhibits, planetariums, a large screen theater, hands-on activities, and three powerful telescopes. is situated 1 mile northeast of Joaquin Miller House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piedmont Pines and Oakland Hills.

Neighborhood
is an affluent residential neighborhood in the hills of . It is generally bounded by Highway 13 to the west, Shepherd Canyon Rd. to the north, Skyline Blvd. to the east, and to the south.

Suburb
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of , . The northernmost neighborhoods were devastated by the Oakland firestorm of 1991.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in , located east of Park Boulevard and north of Dimond Park. This neighborhood was built in the 1920s and 1930s for people who worked in San Francisco and took the Key Route to work.

Joaquin Miller House

Latitude
37.81068° or 37° 48′ 38″ north
Longitude
-122.19302° or 122° 11′ 35″ west
Elevation
807 feet (246 metres)
Open location code
849VRR64+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 466463064
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Geo­Names ID
7304712
Wiki­data ID
Q2751765
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Russian—“Joaquin Miller House” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Joaquin Miller House”
  • French: “Joaquin Miller House”
  • Indonesian: “Rumah Joaquin Miller”
  • Russian: “Дом Хоакина Миллера”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Joaquin Miller House”. Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.