{"id":4398,"date":"2014-04-24T04:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T04:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2014-05-16T22:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T22:08:29","slug":"city-of-riverside-historical-landmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog\/city-of-riverside-historical-landmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Riverside Historical Landmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I was riding my bike around town and I saw this very beautiful house in the middle of what I would describe as plain suburbia setting. Coming closer to the house I saw this sign:<\/p>\n

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City of Riverside Landmark #113.<\/p><\/div>\n

It became immediately apparent to me that there are at least 112 more of these markers out there. I thought to myself wouldn’t be cool to go out on my bike and try and visit them all?! So I did a little more research and I found this list:
\n(UPDATE: 4\/30\/14 Since initially writing this list I have discovered there are now 125 City of Riverside Landmarks and many more interesting memorials and artifacts. As I find new places or as new landmarks are declared I will add them to my list for exploration.)
\n1. Mission Inn<\/a>
\n2. Riverside County Courthouse<\/a>
\n3. Universalist-Unitarian Church<\/a>
\n4. Magnolia United Presbyterian Church
\n5. Heritage House (Bettner-McDavid House)
\n6. First Congregational Church (United Church of Christ)
\n7. First Church of Christ, Scientist
\n8. Victoria Avenue
\n9. Union Pacific Depot
\n10. Bandshell at Fairmount Park
\n11. Riverside Municipal Museum
\n12. S.C. Evans Residence
\n13. Benedict Castle
\n14. Buena Vista Drive and Carlson Park
\n15. Parent Navel Orange Tree<\/a>
\n16. Sherman Indian Museum
\n17. Riverside Municipal Auditorium
\n18. Riverside Art Museum
\n19. Chinatown Site
\n20. Fred Stebler House
\n21. Loring Building
\n22. New Jerusalem Church
\n23. Harada House
\n24. The Gage Canal
\n25. Edgewild
\n26. Mt. Rubidoux
\n27. John W. North Park
\n28. Old City Hall
\n29. Rockledge
\n30. Devine House
\n31. Raeburn
\n32. Arcade Building
\n33. Bonnett Building
\n34. Estudillo House
\n35. Irvine House
\n36. Waite House
\n37. Cressman House
\n38. Grant School
\n39. Fox Theater
\n40. Seventh Street
\n41. Young Men’s Christian Association Building (YMCA)
\n42. Greystones
\n43. Lerner Building
\n44. Hole Mansion
\n45. Collins-Seaton House
\n46. Arlington Branch Library
\n47. Batkin-Chrysler House
\n48. Riverside City College Quadrangle
\n49. University Heights Junior High School
\n50. Rouse’s Department Store Building
\n51. Ward House
\n52. Weber House
\n53. Moulton House
\n54. Victoria Bridge
\n55. Hoover House
\n56. Palm Elementary School
\n57. White Park
\n58. Orchard House
\n59. Robert Bettner House
\n60. The Chicago White Sox Redwood Tree <\/A>
\n61. Montezuma Bald Cypress Trees
\n62. Magnolia Avenue Parkways and Center Median
\n63. Palm Grove
\n64. Roosevelt Palm
\n65. Native Sycamore Tree
\n66. Horse Chestnut Tree
\n67. Evergreen Cemetery and Riverside Mausoleum
\n68. Mitchell House
\n69. Fairmount Park
\n70. Harwood Hall House
\n71. Shiels House
\n72. McIntyre House
\n73. Newman Park and the De Anza Statue
\n74. Buena Vista Bridge
\n75. Stone House
\n76. Stone House (yes there are two of them)
\n77. Hammer-Wallihan House
\n78. Jarvis House
\n79. Collier House
\n80. M. H. Simons’ Undertaking Chapel
\n81. William Childs House
\n82. Hartee Grove
\n83. First Christian Church Parsonage
\n84. Aurea Vista Hotel
\n85. Casa De Anza Motel
\n86. Rockledge Cottage
\n87. Tetley Building
\n88. Henry M. Streeter House
\n89. James M. Wood House
\n90. Roosevelt Building
\n91. Ridgecourt
\n92. J. R. Willis Building
\n93. John J. Hewitt House
\n94. Dr. Edmund Jaeger House (Delisted)
\n95. First United Brethren in Christ
\n96. Irving School
\n97. Chudzikowski Home Site
\n98. White Park Building
\n99. Benjamin Rockhold Family House
\n100. Santa Fe Depot
\n101. Elmer A. Day House
\n102. Food Manufacturing Corporation
\n103. Jaeger Family House
\n104. Raymond Cree-Criddle House
\n105. Mary and Emerson Holt House
\n106. Alkire House
\n107. Holden House
\n108. Ames-Westbrook House
\n109.\u00a0Riverside Upper Canal
\n110.\u00a0Piddington House
\n111.\u00a0Lillian M. Spurgeon Residence
\n112.\u00a0R.D. Brough\/Harry W. Hammond Residence
\n113. John Swanson Residence
\n114. Jackson Building
\n115. Arthur N. Sweet House
\n116. Ernest and Louise Clarke House
\n117. C.O. Evans House
\n118. Five Points Intersection
\n119. All Saints Episcopal Church
\n120. Walter C. Banks Residence
\n121. Bobby Bonds Residence
\n122. Payton House
\n123. Hawthorne House
\n124. Marcy Branch Library (the old one)
\n125. Clinton & Geraldine Marr Residence #2
\nHonorable Mentions:
\n1. Riverside National Cemetary
\n2. Mahatma Ghandi Memorial
\n3. Martin Luther King Memorial
\n4. Cesar Chavez Memorial
\n5. “Safe In His Arms” Memorial
\n6. Dosan Ahn Chang-Ho Memorial
\n7. California Tower
\n8. Seth Thomas Clock
\n9. Eliza Tibbets Statue
\n10. Crocker-Citizens Bank\/Old District Attorneys Office\/Soon to be Public Defenders Office
\n11. Security Investment Company\/Provident Bank
\n12. Tio Tacos
\n13. Riverside City Hall (current)
\n14. Bomber Plane House
\n15. Chinese Memorial Pavilion
\n16. Sundial Clock
\n17. Japanese Stone Lantern
\n18. Ronald O. Loveridge Plaza
\n19. California Museum of Photography
\n20. Brockton Arcade
\n21. Staff Sergeant Ysmael R. Villegas Statue
\n22. “Freedom Is Not Free” Memorial
\n23. Christiansen and Teel Memorial (City Hall)
\n24. Christiansen and Teel Memorial (Police Department)
\n25. Ryan Bonamino Park<\/p>\n

My plan is to visit each one of these places and do a small blog entry about each one. This post will be my landing page and as I visit each place I will change the number into a link, or you can just follow along on my list through the RSS feed or by checking up on the blog. Should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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