African American Museum & Library

The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is a museum and non-circulating library in the Oakland Public Library system dedicated to preserving African American history, experiences and culture.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: First Unitarian Church of Oakland and Preservation Park.

First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Place of worship

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The First Unitarian Church of Oakland is located in western Downtown Oakland, California. It is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Preservation Park

Park

Preservation Park is located in Oakland, California. The park includes sixteen historic buildings, five of which stand in their original location, and eleven of which were moved from elsewhere in Oakland to avoid demolition.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oakland and Downtown Oakland.

Oakland

Photo: Simon Carrasco, CC BY 2.0.

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.

Downtown Oakland

Suburb

Photo: Dcoetzee, Public domain.

Downtown Oakland is the central business district of Oakland, California, United States. It is located roughly bounded by both the Oakland Estuary and Interstate 880 on the southwest, Interstate 980 on the northwest, Grand Avenue on the northeast, and Lake Merritt on the east.

Old Oakland

Neighborhood

Old Oakland is a historic district in downtown Oakland, California. The area is located on the northwest side of Broadway, between the City Center complex and the Jack London Square district, and across Broadway from Chinatown.

African American Museum & Library

Type: Library
Address: 659 14th Street, Oakland, 94612
Categories: building and education
Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.80611° or 37° 48′ 22″ north

Longitude

-122.27646° or 122° 16′ 35″ west

Levels

Open location code

849VRP4F+CC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 91968099

OpenStreetMap feature

building=library

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: African American Museum and Library at Oakland and Thornton House.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: 14th Street & Martin Luther King Junior Way and MLK Jr Way at 14th St.

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