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Oakland City Center: 'There' Sculpture by Roslyn Mazzilli.
Oakland City Center: Courtyard and the Ronald Dellums Federal Building
Oakland City Center: Mix of Modern & Historic Buildings
Oakland City Center: Sister Cities Flag Center & the Golden State Warriors Practice Facility
Oakland City Center: John B. Williams Plaza
Oakland City Center: 'Oakland Tribune' Tower
Oakland City Center: Lionel J. Wilson Building
Oakland City Center: Frank H. Ogawa Statue
Oakland City Center: Jack London Memorial Tree
Oakland City Center: City Hall Building
Oakland City Center: 'Vitality' Sculpture by Bruce Beasley
Oakland City Center: Rotunda Building
Oakland City Center: Anthony Holdsworth Painting in City Hall
Oakland City Center: Elihu M. Harris State Building
Summary: Lionel J. Wilson was Oakland's first African-American mayor. Tour the buildings of Oakland in this free video on travel in California from an authority on landmarks in the Bay Area.
Annalee Allen is a well-known Oakland Tribune landmark columnist, Oakland Tours program coordinator and author of "Oakland (Postcard History)" and "Selections from the Oakland Tribune...read more
"The Lionel J. Wilson building in downtown Oakland, is really two buildings in one. The front part is a historic building, built in 1902, that's that flat-ironed shaped building, and then we have a new wing addition, that was added after the Loma-Prieta earthquake. The building is named for Lionel J. Wilson, who was Oakland's first African-American mayor. Lionel Wilson was Oakland's first African American mayor. He served from 1977 to 1990, and over the course of the years he was our mayor, a lot of downtown Oakland really changed a lot. He also oversaw the recovery from the '89 earthquake, and so when we built this new administration building, here in the City Center Plaza, we named the building in his honor."
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