List of landmarks in Riverside, California

This List of landmarks in Riverside, California includes officially designated federal, state, and local landmarks within the city of Riverside, California, United States, as well as other notable points of interest within the city. Landmarks that are closely associated with the city, but outside the city's boundaries, have also been included.

List of officially designated landmarks

[1] Image Name/Location County
[2][3]		 State
[4][5][6]		 Federal
[7]		 Description
1 Mission Inn
(3649 Mission Inn Ave)
33°58′59″N 117°22′22″W / 33.98306°N 117.37278°W		 RCHL 761
CPHI		 71000173 A composite of many architectural styles, the Inn is generally considered the largest Mission Revival Style building in the United States. Designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) on 1977-05-05.[8]
2 Riverside County Historic Courthouse
(4050 Main St)		 21 CPHI
3 Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside
(3525 Mission Inn Ave)
33°58′56″N 117°22′17″W / 33.98222°N 117.37139°W		 78000736 Originally the All Souls Universalist Church. Built in the English Gothic style, the church is made of unreinforced brick faced with Arizona red sandstone. It has a 50-foot (15 m) tower, stained glass windows, and was completed in 1892.[9]
4 Magnolia United Presbyterian Church
(7200 Magnolia Ave)		 Originally founded as "First Presbyterian Church of Arlington, California," this Gothic Revival church was designed and built by Architect A. W. Boggs in 1881. It is the oldest existing church building in the city of Riverside.
5 Heritage House (Bettner-McDavid House)
(8193 Magnolia Ave)		 73000423
6 First Congregational Church (United Church of Christ)
(3504 Mission Inn Ave)		 10 CPHI 97000297 The church was designed by architect Myron Hunt in the Spanish Baroque Churrigueresque style. Construction began in 1912, and the church was dedicated on January 25, 1914. In 1989 a 24-bell cast bronze carillon, made by the Paccard Foundry in France, was installed in the church's 135-foot (41 m) bell tower, the only pealing bells in Southern California.[10]
7 First Church of Christ, Scientist
(3606 Lemon St)
33°58′57″N 117°22′14″W / 33.98250°N 117.37056°W		 92001250
8 Victoria Avenue
(Myrtle Ave to Boundary Lane)		 00001267
9 Union Pacific Depot
(3751 Vine St)		 77000326
10 Bandshell at Fairmount Park
(Fairmount Boulevard and Market St)
11 Riverside Metropolitan Museum
Federal Post Office
(3580 Mission Inn Ave)		 78000737
12 S. C. Evans Residence
(7606 Mt. Vernon St)
13 Benedict Castle
(1850 Benedict Ave)
14 Buena Vista Drive and Carlson Park
(Mission Inn Ave between Redwood Dr and the Santa Ana River)
15 Parent Navel Orange Tree
(Magnolia Ave at Arlington Ave)		 20
16 Sherman Indian Museum
(9010 Magnolia Ave)		 80000831 Established in 1900, and named for James Schoolcraft Sherman, the school first was a vocational school for Native Americans from California, but later became a high school for Native American students. The building now houses the Sherman Indian Museum with exhibits of Native American history.[11]
17 Riverside Municipal Auditorium
(3485 Mission Inn Ave)		 78000738
18 Riverside Art Museum
(3425 Mission Inn Ave)		 82002227
19 Chinatown Site
(Brockton Ave at Tequesquite Ave)		 8 CPHI 90000151
20 Fred Stebler House
(4532 Sixth St)
21 Loring Building
(3673 Main St)		 6 CPHI
22 New Jerusalem Church
(3645 Locust St)
23 Harada House
(3356 Lemon St)		 77000325 Designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) on 1990-12-14.[8]
24 The Gage Canal
25 Edgewild
(2320 Mary St)
26 Mount Rubidoux
(west of downtown Riverside)		 7 CPHI
27 John W. North Park
(Mission Inn Avenue at Vine St)		 45 CPHI
28 Old City Hall
(3612 Mission Inn Ave)
29 Rockledge
(2812 Ivy St)
30 Devine House
(4475 Twelfth St)
31 Raeburn
(2508 Raeburn Dr)
32 Arcade Building
(3602 University Ave)
33 Bonnett Building
(3800 Orange St)
34 Estudillo House
(4515 Sixth St)
35 Irvine House
(3115 Brockton Ave)
36 Waite House
(3121 Mulberry St)
37 Cressman House
(3390 Orange St)
38 Grant School
(4011 Fourteenth St)
39 Riverside Fox Theater
(3801 Mission Inn Ave)
40 Seventh Street
(from the Santa Fe Depot to the Buena Vista Bridge)
41 Young Men’s Christian Association Building (YMCA)
(3485 University Ave)
42 Greystones
(6190 Hawarden Dr)
43 Lerner Building
(3605-49 Tenth St)
44 Hole Mansion
(11316 Cypress Ave)
45 Collins-Seaton House
(2374 Mission Inn Ave)
46 Arlington Branch Library
(9556 Magnolia Ave)		 93000668
47 Batkin-Chrysler House
(4539 Rubidoux Ave)
48 Riverside City College Quadrangle
(4800 Magnolia Ave)
49 University Heights Junior High School
(2060 University Ave)		 93000547
50 Rouse’s Department Store Building
(3834 Main St)
51 Ward House
(2969 Mission Inn Ave)
52 Weber House
(1510 University Ave)		 86003769
53 Moulton House
(7335 Magnolia Ave)
54 Victoria Bridge
(Victoria Ave between Myrtle Ave and Woodbine St)
55 Hoover House
(3858 Redwood Dr)
56 Palm Elementary School
(6735 Magnolia Ave)
57 White Park
(Chestnut St and Tenth St)
58 Orchard House
(6499 Hawarden Dr)
59 Robert Bettner House
(7995 Magnolia Ave)
60 The Chicago White Sox Redwood Tree
(Low Park)
61 Montezuma Bald Cypress Trees
(Fairmount Park)
62 Magnolia Avenue Parkways and Center Median
(between Arlington Ave and San Rafael Way)
63 Palm Grove
(Hunter Park, near the intersection of Columbia St and Iowa Ave)
64 Roosevelt Palm
(Victoria Ave at Myrtle St)
65 Native Sycamore Tree
(median island on La Paz Lane at Bubbling Well Rd)
66 Horse Chestnut Tree
(Victoria Ave center divider at Mary St)
67 Evergreen Cemetery and Riverside Mausoleum
(4414 Fourteenth St)
68 Mitchell House
(3209 Mulberry St)
69 Fairmount Park
(Fairmount Blvd and Market St)
70 Harwood Hall House
(4570 University Ave)
71 Shiels House
(3620 Fifteenth St)
72 McIntyre House
(4586 Olivewood Ave)
73 Newman Park and the De Anza Statue
(Magnolia Ave at Fourteenth St)
74 Buena Vista Bridge
(Rubidoux Dr and Mission Inn Ave)
75 Stone House
(3241 Mary Street)
76 Stone House
(2110 Seventh Street)
77 Hammer-Wallihan House
(3563 Prospect Ave)
78 Jarvis House
(4492 Twelfth St)
79 Collier House
(3092 Lime St)
80 M. H. Simons’ Undertaking Chapel
(3610 Eleventh St)		 80000834
81 William Childs House
(1151 Monte Vista Dr)		 99000895
82 Hartree Grove
(6475 Victoria Ave)
83 First Christian Church Parsonage
(2933 Mission Inn Ave)
84 Aurea Vista Hotel
(3480 University Ave)
85 Casa De Anza Motel
(3425 Market St)
86 Rockledge Cottage
(2575 Madison St)
87 Tetley Building
(4344-98 Market St)
88 Henry M. Streeter House
(5211 Central Ave)
89 James M. Wood House
(2490 Prince Albert Dr)
90 Roosevelt Building
(3616-38 University Ave)
91 Ridgecourt
(3261 Strong St)
92 J. R. Willis Building
(4336 Market St)
93 John J. Hewitt House
(3050 Orange St)
94 Dr. Edmund Jaeger House – Delisted
(4465 Sixth St)
95 First United Brethren in Christ
(2921 Sixth St)
96 Irving School
(4341 Victoria Ave)
97 Chudzikowski Home Site
(4998 Bushnell Ave)
98 White Park Building
(3900-3920 Market St)
99 Benjamin Rockhold Family House
(4581 Indian Hill Rd)
100 Santa Fe Depot
(3750 Santa Fe St)
101 Elmer A. Day House
(3894 Fourth St)
102 Food Manufacturing Corporation
(Tenth St and Howard St)
103 Jaeger Family House
(4462 Sixth St)
104 Raymond Cree-Criddle House
(4536 Beacon Way)
105 Mary and Emerson Holt House
(3504 Larchwood Pl)
106 Alkire House
(3245 Orange St)
107 Holden House
(7355 Magnolia Ave)
108 Ames-Westbrook House
(4811 Brockton Ave)
Citrus Experiment Station
 28 CPHI
Citrus Machinery Pioneering
 30 CPHI
De Anza Crossing of the Santa Ana River
(6161 Moraga Ave)		 787
Masonic Temple
(3650 11th St)		 80000832
Riverside-Arlington Heights Fruit Exchange
(3391 Mission Inn Ave)		 80000833
Sutherland Fruit Company
(3191 Mission Inn Ave)		 86000732
March Field Historic District
(Eschscholtzia Ave)		 CPHI 94001420

List of monuments and memorials

Photo Name/
Location		 Description
Chinese pagoda
(In front of the downtown library)
Famous Flyers Wall
(Mission Inn)
Huntington shrine
(Mount Rubidoux)
Junípero Serra cross
(Mount Rubidoux)
Loring shrine
(Mount Rubidoux)
Statue of Ahn Chang Ho
(Main Street Pedestrian Mall)
Statue of Juan Bautista De Anza
(Magnolia Ave at Fourteenth St)		 See city landmark #73.
Statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Main Street Pedestrian Mall)
Statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(Main Street Pedestrian Mall)
Statue of Ysmael R. Villegas
(Main Street Pedestrian Mall)
The Riverside Tripod 1976 by artist James Rosati This James Rosati sculpture was originally installed on the grounds of the newly constructed Riverside City Hall in Downtown Riverside. The sculpture was moved to the city's fire station #5, and re-dedicated on September 11, 2008, to the Riverside firefighters who responded to the 9/11 emergency in New York in 2001.[12]
Victims Wall
(Victim's Courtyard in downtown Riverside)[13]
World Peace Bridge
(Mount Rubidoux)
World War II Water Buffalo Tank
(Fairmount Park)		 The FMC corporation, originally the Food Machinery Company, and a maker of citrus packing equipment and pesticides, was given a contract to design a tracked military vehicle, after it had been instrumental in designing an amphibious tracked vehicle for use in the Florida Everglades. The Riverside plant became associated with the LVTA (landing vehicle, tracked, armored), or Water Buffalo. One of the tanks was installed on a cement pedestal at Fairmount Park as a memorial to the fact that the park's Lake Evans, along with the nearby Santa Ana River, were used as testing areas for the tank.[14]

List of natural landmarks

Photo Name/
Location		 Description
Arlington Mountain 1,853 feet (565 m)
33°52′16.97″N 117°28′17.36″W / 33.8713806°N 117.4714889°W
Box Springs Mountain 3,080 feet (940 m)
33°57′42″N 117°16′49″W / 33.96167°N 117.28028°W
La Sierra Hills
Little Pachapa Hill 877 feet (267 m)
33°57′2.63″N 117°22′55.38″W / 33.9507306°N 117.3820500°W
Mount Rubidoux 1,399 feet (426 m)
33°59′1.39″N 117°23′35.23″W / 33.9837194°N 117.3931194°W
Pachapa Hill 1,186 feet (361 m)
33°57′37.94″N 117°22′49.73″W / 33.9605389°N 117.3804806°W
Quarry Hill 1,178 feet (359 m)
33°55′23.30″N 117°23′35.38″W / 33.9231389°N 117.3931611°W
Santa Ana River
Tequesquite Arroyo
Victoria Hill 1,005 feet (306 m)
33°57′33.88″N 117°22′14.27″W / 33.9594111°N 117.3706306°W

Other points of interest

Photo Name/
Location		 Description
Giant Lily Cup
(Iowa Ave north of Palmyrita Ave)		 The world's largest "paper" cup in front of what was once the Lily-Tulip manufacturing company, later Sweetheart Cup Company.[15] Actually made of poured concrete, the cup stands about 68.1 feet (20.8 m) tall.
Main Street Mall Clock Tower and Water Fall
(Tenth and Main Streets)
Main Street Pedestrian Mall Antique Clock Tower
(Southwest corner of Mission Inn Ave and Main St)		 A 13 foot high Seth Thomas street clock made in 1908. Originally the clock was installed on Riverside's Main Street in the 1920s in front of the Fisher Jewelry store. The clock was moved several times along with the store. Fisher reportedly obtained the clock from someone in Pasadena, California, where the clock had also stood in front of a jewelry store.[16] The clock was completely refurbished in 2010, and moved to its current location, as part of the Main Street Pedestrian Mall remodel.[17]
Concrete Railway Viaduct
(Crossing the Santa Ana River near Fremont St)		 When built in 1903 it was billed as the largest concrete viaduct in the world. It is 984 feet (300 m) long, 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, averages 55 feet (17 m) in height, and contains about 14,000 cubic feet (400 m3) of concrete.[18] (As a comparison, Glenfinnan Viaduct (the "Harry Potter" viaduct) was built in 1901 and is 1,035 feet (315 m) long and up to 100 feet (30 m) high.)
University of California, Riverside Bell Tower and Carillon The 161 feet (49 m) bell tower houses a 48-bell carillon with bells ranging form 28 pounds to 5,091 pounds. Regular performances are held weekly, on Mondays, from noon until 1:00pm, with special performances throughout the year.[19]

See also

References

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Citations and notes

  1. ↑ Numbers are as listed in the City of Riverside Landmarks brochure. Blue represents sites that are City of Riverside Landmarks without a higher designation. Other various colorings (defined here) represent higher designations as National Historic Landmarks and listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
  2. ↑ Riverside County Historic Landmark (RCHL)
  3. ↑ Riverside County Regional Park & Open-Space District; County Historic Landmark Designation; Riverside County Points of Historical Interest. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  4. ↑ Number indicates California Historical Landmark; CPHI indicates California Place of Historical Interest
  5. ↑ "California Historic Landmarks – Riverside County". California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  6. ↑ Jennings, Bill (1993). Guide To The Historic Landmarks Of Riverside County California. Riverside, CA: Riverside County Historical Commission Press. pp. 10–36.
  7. ↑ The NRIS (National Register Information System) number from the US Department of the Interior; National Park Service; National Register of Historic Places Database. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 US Department of the Interior; National Park Service; Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
  9. ↑ Hiltner, Nita. Riverside: Sandstone, tower, no air conditioning make up church, The Press-Enterprise, 2010-10-30. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
  10. ↑ Hiltner, Nita. RIVERSIDE: Abolitionists gave church its start, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California, 2010-10-17. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
  11. ↑ Jennings, page 10.
  12. ↑ Haberman, Doug. At ceremony, Riverside commemorates 9/11, rededicates 'Tripod' sculpture, The Press-Enterprise, 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2010-10-08.
  13. ↑ ABC News, Victims Wall to be unveiled in Riverside, 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  14. ↑ Patterson, pages 166-167.
  15. ↑ Lily-Tulip Cup Corporation, Springfield-Greene County Library, Springfield, Missouri
  16. ↑ Patterson, Tom. The County's Past, The Press-Enterprise, 1992-12-20, page B-4.
  17. ↑ Robinson, Alicia. 102-Year-Old Clock Returns to Riverside Mall, The Press-Enterprise, 2010-02-12.
  18. ↑ Ostrom, A. C. The Concrete Viaduct Near Riverside, Cal; San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake R. R., Engineering News, Vol. L. No. 17, New York, 1903-10-02.
  19. ↑ University of California, Riverside Belltower. Retrieved 2010-10-10.

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