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Broadway Heights
To the east of Temescal is Broadway Heights, the beginning of the Oakland hills, a healthy and self-contained neighborhood with something of a small-town feel. The area is best known for Kaiser Permanente and Piedmont Avenue, which is among Oakland's most complete and healthy retail strips. Despite being a destination for many throughout the day, the neighborhood's character is otherwise calm and residential.
Developed later than most of North Oakland, much of Broadway Heights remained country estates into the 20th century. The main catalyst for growth was the horse-drawn streetcar of the 1870s, which brought passengers to Mountain View Cemetery-a large collection of cemeteries designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (of Central Park fame). While much of the growth of this slightly exclusive neighborhood occurred roughly between 1890 and 1930, development didn't end until the 1960s.
Architecture in Broadway Heights varies from scattered Victorian and Neo-Colonial houses to Crafstman bungalows and suburban ranch-style homes, the latter of which especially proliferate in the northeast. The 1960s and '70s brought some apartment buildings and condominiums, mostly in the neighborhood's southeast.
The massive Mountain View Cemetery (and other cemeteries) still lies to the north of the neighborhood; retail is highly concentrated along Piedmont Avenue and Broadway to the west.
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