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HB133617
View Of Champion House And Barn From Across Driveway, Facing West
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HB133618
View Of Champion House From Across Mowry Avenue, Facing West
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HB133619
View Of Champion House East Front, Facing West
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HB133620
View Of Champion House East Front And North Side, Facing Southwest
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HB133621
View Of Champion House South Side, Facing North
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Location1357 Mowry Avenue,
Fremont, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2288
Building/structure dates:
1880 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1890 subsequent work
Significance: The Champion House is historically significant as one of the few remnants of a farm complex in southern Alameda County. The property is associated with a family prominent in the area's settlement and early agricultural development. Architecturally, the house and barn are representative of regional types which are rapidly disappearing.
Subjects
AgricultureFarmhousesPomology
Related Names
Rybak, Raymond R.
Champion, Woodward H.
Nichols, Marcia Jane
Nichols, Joseph
Ralph, Jennie Champion
Minor, Woodruff C., Historian
Schafer, Jack, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW OF CHAMPION HOUSE AND BARN FROM ACROSS DRIVEWAY, FACING WEST
2. VIEW OF CHAMPION HOUSE FROM ACROSS MOWRY AVENUE, FACING WEST
3. VIEW OF CHAMPION HOUSE EAST FRONT, FACING WEST
4. VIEW OF CHAMPION HOUSE EAST FRONT AND NORTH SIDE, FACING SOUTHWEST
5. VIEW OF CHAMPION HOUSE SOUTH SIDE, FACING NORTH
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