Architect and engineer . .1. Homw .Ix^ard VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING, HAVWARD, CALIFORNIA HENRY H. MEYERS. ARCHITECT Ceo. R. Klinkhardt and Mildred S. Mevers. Associates. \Jjicmiec(r & ENGINEER Ausust, 1935 Memorials hy Jlildred S. ^leyers Alameda County, California. BuildsTen Monumental Structures asTribute to World WarVeterans UNDER theprovisions ofa state lawenacted less than tenyears ago. countiesof the State of Cali-fornia are permittedto include in theirtax rate a certainportion for the con-struction and main-tenance of MemorialBuildings, dedicatedto the memory oftheir war veterans.
Architect and engineer . .1. Homw .Ix^ard VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING, HAVWARD, CALIFORNIA HENRY H. MEYERS. ARCHITECT Ceo. R. Klinkhardt and Mildred S. Mevers. Associates. \Jjicmiec(r & ENGINEER Ausust, 1935 Memorials hy Jlildred S. ^leyers Alameda County, California. BuildsTen Monumental Structures asTribute to World WarVeterans UNDER theprovisions ofa state lawenacted less than tenyears ago. countiesof the State of Cali-fornia are permittedto include in theirtax rate a certainportion for the con-struction and main-tenance of MemorialBuildings, dedicatedto the memory oftheir war veterans. Since 1927, thecounty of Alamedahas gradually beenerecting in the vari-ous communitiesthroughout thecounty, ten suchMemorials, whichhave been designed. DETAIL OF LOBBY. VETERANS MEMORIALBUILDING. SAN LEANDROHenry H, Meyers. Architect as club buildings orcommunity structures arelocated in Berkeley,Everyville. Albany,San Leandro, Hay-ward, Niles, Pleas-anton and Liver-more. They range incost, according tothe demands andneeds of the com-munity, from $ to $250,000. A further provi-sion of this law re-quires the site to befurnished by thecommunity in whichthe building is to beerected. In somecases, land ^^fas fur-nished by the city or ^ 11 ? town itself. In others, the veterans or- acter for its building. ganization supplied this requirement. Some The Memorial at Niles is on the site ofof the sites provided are ideal, others leave an old pear orchard in the heart of an earlymuch to be desired. Certain of the com- Spanish land grant, the Rancho de la Ala-munities, not realizing the importance of the meda . Streets were cut through and open-building in the civic life of the district until ed after the
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