Levi Goodrich
[1][2] On March 8, 1849, Goodrich sailed for California via Cape Horn on the ship Loochoo arriving on September 16, 1849.The building, at the corner of Washington and Kearny Streets, was built to replace tents used by Gold Rush miners.On April 2, 1887, he suffered an attack of apoplexy while visiting San Diego with his wife, and quickly died.The quarry is about eight miles south of San Jose in the Santa Teresa Hills on the eastern slope of the Almaden Valley.[22][23] The stone from the Goodrich/Graystone quarry has been used in many California buildings including the front walls and cornices of the Stanford University quadrangle the Santa Clara County Courthouse, U.S. Post Office in San Jose (now the San Jose Museum of Art), California State Normal School, Lick Observatory, University of the Pacific, the Knox-Goodrich Building, San Carlos Railroad Depot, and Agnews State Hospital.
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