San Francisco Chronicle, “East Bay City Acquires Bit of Italian Landscape.”

Source of important textual description as well as a photograph of the entire Cascade at the time of its birth.


Gilkey, Howard, “The Importance of Garden Design: It Should Fit All of the Conditions of Site, Climate, Home,” California Arts & Architecture, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, pp. 37–38.
Gilkey, Howard, “The Role of the Landscape Architect,” American Landscape Architect, Volume IV, Number 3, pp. 36 – 38.

Source of the crucial photograph of water running in the Cascade. None of the text is directly relevant to the Cleveland Cascade. The article also presents photos (1) of “Fountain center, Mills College, Oakland,” where Gilkey is identified as the landscape architect, and (2) from the estate of Mr. C. J. Heeseman, Piedmont, California, where the landscape architect is not identified.


Oakland Post-Enquirer, “H.E. Gilkey, Garden Show Architect, Sued by Wife."
Oakland Post-Enquirer, “Howard Gilkey Is Credited With Designing Great Shows.”
Burroughs, Jack, “Your Town: Block House to Expo Building,” Oakland Tribune.
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Out of Garden Show: Designer, Architect Resigns to Give Full Time to Own Business,” p. 21.
San Francisco Chronicle, “Veteran Garden Show Designer Quits in Oakland.”
Oakland Tribune, “Howard Gilkey to Design Home and Garden Show.”
Oakland Tribune, “Designer Named For Garden Show.”
Oakland Tribune, “Howard Gilkey’s Career Coincides With the Show’s.”
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Garden ‘Man of Year.’”
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Gets Trophy At Garden Ceremony.”
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Publishes ‘The Great Design.’”
Oakland Tribune, “Howard E. Gilkey Rites in Private.”
Navlet, Arthur E., “Howard Gilkey and the California Spring Garden Shows,” Pacific Horticulture Volume 37, Number 4, pages 27 – 31.
Wilson, Mark A., A Living Legacy: Historic Architecture of the East Bay, Lexikos, 1987.
Moore, Bill, “New Life for Cleveland Cascade,” Oakland Heritage Alliance News, Vol. 16, No. 3, page10.
Cutler, Phoebe, “Howard Gilkey,” Eden: California Garden and Landscape History Society Journal, Vol. 1, No. 8.
Oakland Tribune, “Map Offers Foot-Friendly View of Oakland,” April 27, 2003. (Republished on Oakland Parks and Recreation web site.)
Roy, Joyce, “Preservation Action Committee news: Cleveland Cascade,” Oakland Heritage Alliance News, Vol. 24, No. 1, page 6.
Brand, William, “Volunteers uncover part of city’s history,” Oakland Tribune, May 2, 2004, page Local-1.
Newcombe, Barbara, “Adding to cascade success,” Oakland Tribune, May 12, 2004. (Letter to Editor)
Gerstman, Bruce, “Volunteers dig up old cascade,” Montclarion, May 21, 2004, page 1.
Gerstman, Bruce, “Hangin’ with the get-in-shape crowd,” Montclarion, June 18, 2004, page 1.
Pullen, Suzanne, “Chronicle Watch — Working for a better Bay Area: Help Wanted,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 15, 2004, page B1.
Allen, Annalee, “Oakland stairway movin’ on up,” Oakland Tribune, August 22, 2004.
Sanders, Joshunda, “A daily dose of vitamin G: Oakland man has created a workout regimen you won’t find in a gym,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2004, page F1.
Pullen, Suzanne, “Oakland: Volunteers giving new life to long-buried fountain near Lake Merritt,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 22, 2004, page F10.
Kurhi, Eric, “Fountain’s renovation on agenda,” Montclarion, February 8, 2005, page A1.
Herron Zamora, Jim, “$300,000 to fix man-made waterfall,”San Francisco Chronicle, February 10, 2005, page B-5.
Kurhi, Eric, “Cash to go to backers of Cleveland Cascade,” Montclarion, February 11, 2005.
Stinnett, Peggy, “Getting fired up about fire hydrants,”Oakland Tribune, February 12, 2005, page Local 1.
Nadia, Ilyin, “Walking Distance: Just Exactly Where is the Cleveland Cascade?”, The Lakeside Voice, Vol. 4, Issue 2, page 2.

(The Lakeside Voice is a publication for residents of The Regillus building at 200 Lakeside Drive, overlooking Lake Merritt.)


Casey, Laura, “Money pours in for Cleveland Cascade,” Oakland Tribune, March 14, 2005, page Local 1.
Edtiors, “Our Opinion” editorial, “Volunteers bring beauty to Oakland,” Oakland Tribune, March 18, 2005, page Local 9.
Cleveland Cascade from 1931 article by Howard Gilkey in American Landscape Architect
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