Ordway Building

The Ordway Building is a skyscraper located in downtown Oakland, California. The building lies close to Oakland's Lake Merritt and the tower contains 28 stories of office space.

Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.

Type: Building
Description: skyscraper in Oakland, California
Also known as: “One Kaiser Plaza”
Address: 2150

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Children’s Fairyland and Kaiser Center.

Children’s Fairyland

Theme park

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Children's Fairyland, U.S.A. is an amusement park, located in Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt. It was one of the earliest "themed" amusement parks in the United States. Children’s Fairyland is situated 1,200 feet east of Ordway Building.

Kaiser Center

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Kaiser Center, also called the Kaiser Building, is a 28-story office building located at 300 Lakeside Drive, adjacent to Lake Merritt, in downtown Oakland, California, designed by the architectural firm of Welton Becket & Associates of Los Angeles. Kaiser Center is situated 390 feet south of Ordway Building.

Paramount Theatre

Theater building

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The Paramount Theatre is a 3,040-seat Art Deco concert hall located at 2025 Broadway in Downtown Oakland. When it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the West Coast, seating 3,476. Paramount Theatre is situated 1,300 feet west of Ordway Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uptown Oakland and Adams Point.

Uptown Oakland

Neighborhood

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Uptown Oakland is a neighborhood in Oakland, California, United States, located in the northern end of Downtown. It is located roughly between West Grand Avenue to the north, Interstate 980 to the west, City Center and 14th Street to the south, and Broadway to the east.

Adams Point

Neighborhood

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Adams Point is a neighborhood of Oakland, California. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Merritt, directly adjacent to Downtown Oakland and the Grand Lake district.

Oakland

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Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States. Once an industrial area overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people has begun to step out from under San Francisco's shadow with its notable natural and architectural features and its rise as the multicultural "hipster" city of the Bay Area.

Ordway Building

Categories: tower block and skyscraper
Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.80998° or 37° 48′ 36″ north

Longitude

-122.26411° or 122° 15′ 51″ west

Established

1970

Levels

Height

404 feet (123 metres)

Open location code

849VRP5P+X9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 27808521

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q7100949

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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to Spanish—“Ordway Building” goes by many names.

Egyptian Arabic: “مبنى اوردواى”
Spanish: “Ordway Building”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Christ the Light Cathedral and Kaiser Rooftop Garden.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: The Cathedral Shop and KEMA USA.

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