Baxter Art Gallery was an art exhibition space at the California Institute of Technology, founded by Professor of Literature David R. Smith in 1971, and David Smith became the first gallery director. The little gallery was nationally known for its daring exhibits of contemporary art. When it closed in 1985 for financial reasons, the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution requested all its records.
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Ventura High School is a public high school in Ventura, California. The school is part of the Ventura Unified School District. It serves students in the western portion of Ventura and surrounding unincorporated communities, including Casitas Springs, Oak View, and La Conchita. VHS is a California Distinguished School.
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Ventura County Christian School is a private, nondenominational Christian school in Ventura, California. VCCS began in 1994 as a high school only. In 2003 it began hosting all grades K-12, and moved to a separate building on MacMillan Avenue. It currently has approximately 90 high school students, and an average class size of 15 students.
In 2023 the school moved to a new location on Teloma Dr. in Ventura.
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Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura is a 242-bed community-based teaching hospital located in Ventura, California. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission. In the most recent year with available data, 38,013 patients visited the emergency department, 13,314 patients were admitted to the hospital, and physicians performed 4,133 inpatient and 7,151 outpatient surgeries.
Community Memorial Hospital started as a single hospital in 1901. Today it has grown into an expansive healthcare system with two hospitals and eleven family practice centers serving various communities in the Ventura County area.
Community Memorial Hospital has begun building a new six-story, 325,000-square-foot hospital next to the current location. The new building was scheduled to open in 2015, but is now expected to open in December 2018, and will have 250 private rooms.
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Rancho San Miguel was a 4,694-acre Mexican land grant in present-day Ventura County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to Felipe Lorenzana and Raymundo Olivas. The grant encompassed the area of present-day City of Ventura not within Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura, with the Santa Clara River marking its southern boundary.
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The Pierpont Inn is a Craftsman bungalow-style hotel in Ventura, California, United States, on a bluff overlooking the Santa Barbara Channel. Built in 1910 for motoring tourists, the complex is City of San Buenaventura Historic Landmark Number 80. Josephine Pierpont thought the site on a bluff overlooking the ocean could serve the increasing number of automobile enthusiasts who would travel along the Pacific Coast looking for a place to rest.
The board of governors considered to relocate the gallery, then in 1989, it in collaboration with the Pasadena Arts Workshop became the Armory Center for the Arts. In memory of the gallery, several original exhibition posters are hanging in Baxter Hall, Caltech.