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Trestle Glen Real Estate, Oakland CA in Oakland, CA

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Crocker Highlands (Trestle Glen)Directly south of the City of Piedmont and east of downtown Oakland is Crocker Highlands, also referred to as Trestle Glen. The neighborhood is a laurel-lined glen along one of the creeks tributary to Lake Merrit. It is an impressive neighborhood not far Oakland's core.The area began as Indian Gulch, named after a canyon once populated by Ohlone Indians, and used as a country park in the late 19th century. In 1893, streetcars came to the gulch and traveled over a tall wooden bridge know as a trestle, and hence the name Trestle Glen (Crocker Highlands derives from one development in the neighborhood which gradually came to encompass the whole area). Efforts to convert the entire area into a city park failed in 1915, and development began soon after to create what would become an exclusive and upper-income community in an area of considerable natural beauty.The early architecture of Crocker Highlands, spearheaded in the 1910s and '20s by the Olmsted brothers (sons of Frederick Law Olmsted), aimed to merge nature with building styles. Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, William Wurster, and others designed large and attractive homes in Craftsman, Prairie, and Neo-Mediterranean styles. Today, Crocker Highlands is a low-density area of spacious bungalows and period revival homes on curving roads lined with greenery. The neighborhood also contains several small parks; retail is found on the southeast border as well as in the north, in the Grand Lake/Lakeshore area. MontclairMontclair is a sprawling district in the northern hills of Oakland, containing lush and winding streets of trees, gardens, and unique houses. Well removed from the city's core, the area feels at once suburban and rural, with large homes amidst semi-forests, overlooking the distant Bay.Though the appearance of Montclair suggests less age than many Oakland neighborhoods, the hills were actually settled before the founding of Oakland. Loggers, cattle ranchers, and others exploited the area for its rich resources during the Gold Rush, but permanent residence remained insignificant. In the early years of the 20th century, the neighborhood became something of a retreat from city life spas, forests, and country estates attracted San Francisco transplants. In the 1920s, actual development began for an ideal home district and continued into the 1960s.One of Montclair's main assets has always been its trees oak, eucalyptus, pine, cyprus, and others. Architecture here, as in adjacent neighborhoods, aimed to preserve the natural character of the area, and lot sizes can stretch into acres. Styles of homes range from large Craftsman bungalows, shingled cottages, and Prairie homes to period revivals and ranch-style homes.At the northern edge of the neighborhood is Lake Temescal Park; at the center is Montclair village, a small and quaint area of small shops serving most local needs. The City of PiedmontLong an upscale enclave for San Francisco's elite, Piedmont is well known for being one of California's most desirable and upscale communities. Sought out by businessmen one hundred years ago for its natural beauty and effervescent and healthy climate, Piedmont began as a resort in the 1870s. Piedmont Park and Blair Park, offering natural springs, a hotel, and refined amusements, attracted wealthy pleasure seekers arriving by streetcar (and, later, cable car). In the 1890s, development of large estates increased and, by 1907, there was enough of a population to incorporate as a city.In Piedmont, The avenues swing toward the hills, giving, at each turn new and surprising vistas of lawns and gardens, with homes that have been adapted so intelligently to their sites that they seem to have grown where they are placed. Homes in Piedmont date mostly from the first half of the 20th century, with hundreds of unique and monumental homes of period revival style, as well as grand versions of the Craftsman bungalow and less classifiable homes designed by virtuoso architects.With a low density and a very residential character, the City of Piedmont has but one small retail center. However, the businesses of Piedmont Avenue are not far off, located just west of the city limits. RockridgeIn the 1870s and 80's, the area which is now known as Rockridge, was still considered to be country. The first farmhouses scattered over the area where built in the Italianate style. Scattered farms lined the creek between college Avenue and Lake Temescal. As late as 1910, mining man Charles Butters operated an explosive plant and metallurgical lab alone the creek in the area between what is now Chabot Court and Presley Way. By the 1890s, on the west side of College Avenue many Italian immigrants were beginning to move into the area. Vegetable gardens were one source of livelihood for residents who sold produce from their kitchen gardens. Orchards and extensive truck gardens, watered by Temescal Creek, were common in this section of Rockridge. In the twenty years between 1890 and 1910 the population of Oakland tripled from less than 49,000 to 150,000. Ten years later, in 1920, the population of Oakland was 215,000. The developing infrastructure which surrounded College Avenue encouraged and supported this population growth. By 1890 electric street railways were revolutionizing transportation all across the country. By 1905 College Avenue was served by an Oakland Traction Line Streetcar and it became possible to commute from anywhere in Rockridge to downtown Oakland or Downtown Berkeley and anywhere in between. Today the BART system has made Rockridge a very desirable place to live because it is an easy commute to so many places in the Bay Area. TemescalTemescal is an urban neighborhood of tremendous diversity and history. Its array of ethnicities, businesses, and architecture have drawn students, artists, and young families since the 1980s. Located half way between the downtowns of Berkeley and Oakland, between the Bay and the hills, Temescal is at the cross roads of North Oakland.The history of the neighborhood goes back to the Spanish land grants of the late-18th century. Vicente Peralta built his adobe near Temescal Creek, named for the Ohlone sweatlodges in the area. Subdivision of Peralta's land began in the 1860s, as migrants came and industry boomed-including the world's largest cannery and a large quarry. European immigrants poured into the neighborhood between the 1880s and 1920s, especially Northern Italians from Liguria who made Temescal Oakland's Little Italy until the 1970s. Depression hit the area in the 1960s and '70s, but investment over the past 15-plus years has transformed Temescal into a haven of attractive homes and ethnic plurality.19th century Victorian and Neo-Colonial homes are mixed with numerous Craftsman bungalows of the 1920s and '30s. Apartment buildings are plentiful along major streets, and, in general, the neighborhood has a moderately high density.Telegraph and Broadway are the main retail strips in the neighborhood itself, but College and Piedmont Avenues are close-by. MacArthur BART is at the neighborhood's southwest and Mosswood Park lies to the southeast.

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