Ventura, house by house
Eight Ventura neighborhoods and Ojai, each with its kind of house, when it was built, its water, and what its floors go through.
- Late 1800s to the 1930s Downtown Victorians and Craftsman cottages Victorian-era houses with blocks of single-story Craftsman and period revival homes among them.
- Mostly 1920 to 1930 Westside Oil-field worker cottages Small single-family cottages on small lots, built for the Ventura Avenue oil field, with a few bungalow courts.
- Laid out in 1925, built up from the 1950s Pierpont Beach cottages on sand lots Five-room beach cottages on small sand lots, some since enlarged, in the city’s only beachfront neighborhood.
- From the early 1960s Ventura Keys Houses on the channels More than 300 waterfront lots on channels dug in the early 1960s, just north of Ventura Harbor.
- Early 1900s to the 1960s Midtown Craftsman houses, courts and fourplexes Craftsman and period revival houses, bungalow courts, duplexes and fourplexes along the old Highway 101.
- 1960s and 1970s, many rebuilt after 2017 The Hillsides Hillside modern houses Mid-century and later modern houses on the hills above town, many rebuilt after the Thomas Fire.
- From the mid-1950s East Ventura Postwar ranch tracts Postwar tract houses, such as the three-bedroom ranches of Surety Park, laid out in 1956.
- After the Second World War Montalvo Neighborhoods by the Santa Clara River Postwar houses on the north bank of the Santa Clara River, part of the city only since 2012.
- Renamed Ojai in 1917 Ojai Valley houses on very hard water A small valley city 12 miles north of Ventura, on its own wells and Lake Casitas water.
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