Mosswood Park
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Mosswood Park is an 11 acres (44,515.5 m²) public park in Oakland, California
, located on W MacArthur Boulevard between Webster Street and Broadway. The address is 3612 Webster St. It is managed by the city's Department of Parks and Recreation. It contains a community recreation center as well as extensive grassy lawns, picnic areas, children's play equipment, dog runs, tennis and basketball courts, and baseball fields.
Programs at the park include after-school tutoring for grades K-7, along with numerous other after-school classes.
Mosswood Park is situated on the former estate of J. Mora Moss
, who built a Carpenter Gothic
style mansion there in 1864. After he married Julia Wood, he combined their two surnames to name it Mosswood. The mansion, an Oakland Heritage Landmark, still stands but is in poor repair and is used for office and storage space by the Park and Recreation Department.
The city purchased a portion of the estate, including the house, in 1907 for use as a park. Over the years the park was augmented with two amphitheaters and a decorative pergola. During the 1950s there were children's plays in one of the amphitheaters every week, put on by the Mosswood Children's Theatre Teen Troupe. However, that amphitheater was demolished in the 1960s when Interstate 580
was built and an on-ramp was constructed through that part of the park.
The neighborhood around Mosswood Park is called Mosswood. The neighborhood goes from the Grove Shafter Freeway to the West to Broadway Sreet to the East. The border to the North is 40th Street and to the South the border is the MacArthur Freeway. MacArthur Blvd. runs right through the Mosswood neighborhood.
The park was used in NBA Street Vol. 2
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
, located on W MacArthur Boulevard between Webster Street and Broadway. The address is 3612 Webster St. It is managed by the city's Department of Parks and Recreation. It contains a community recreation center as well as extensive grassy lawns, picnic areas, children's play equipment, dog runs, tennis and basketball courts, and baseball fields.
Programs at the park include after-school tutoring for grades K-7, along with numerous other after-school classes.
Mosswood Park is situated on the former estate of J. Mora Moss
J. Mora Moss House
J. Mora Moss House is a boldly romantic Carpenter Gothic style Victorian home located within Mosswood Park in Oakland, California. It was built in 1864, bought by Oakland in 1912 and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1960 at which point it was pronounced "One of the finest, if...
, who built a Carpenter Gothic
Carpenter Gothic
Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic, and Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters...
style mansion there in 1864. After he married Julia Wood, he combined their two surnames to name it Mosswood. The mansion, an Oakland Heritage Landmark, still stands but is in poor repair and is used for office and storage space by the Park and Recreation Department.
The city purchased a portion of the estate, including the house, in 1907 for use as a park. Over the years the park was augmented with two amphitheaters and a decorative pergola. During the 1950s there were children's plays in one of the amphitheaters every week, put on by the Mosswood Children's Theatre Teen Troupe. However, that amphitheater was demolished in the 1960s when Interstate 580
Interstate 580
Interstate 580 is the designation for several Interstate Highways in the United States, all of which are related to Interstate 80:*Interstate 580 , a connector in the San Francisco Bay Area to Interstate 5...
was built and an on-ramp was constructed through that part of the park.
The neighborhood around Mosswood Park is called Mosswood. The neighborhood goes from the Grove Shafter Freeway to the West to Broadway Sreet to the East. The border to the North is 40th Street and to the South the border is the MacArthur Freeway. MacArthur Blvd. runs right through the Mosswood neighborhood.
The park was used in NBA Street Vol. 2
NBA Street Vol. 2
NBA Street Vol. 2 is the sequel to NBA Street. It was released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and for the first time in the series, on the Xbox. Japan was only able to see a PlayStation 2 release of this game...