Agnews Developmental Center
Agnews Developmental Center was a state institution located on two campuses in the U.S.
Agnews Developmental Center was a state institution located on two campuses in the U.S. state of California; one in Santa Clara and one in San Jose. Founded in 1885 as a psychiatric facility for the mentally ill, it operated for over a century before closing in stages between 1998 and 2011. Over time, its mission expanded to include people with developmental disabilities, which became its sole focus after psychiatric programs were discontinued in 1972 following deinstitutionalization.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Agnews Developmental Center
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Levi's Stadium
Levi's Stadium is an outdoor stadium near the West Coast of the United States, located in Santa Clara, California, just west of San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has served as the home venue for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League since 2014.
1.9 km · American football stadium in Santa Clara, California, United States · Wikipedia - 02California's Great America
California's Great America is an amusement park located in Santa Clara, California, United States, within the San Francisco Bay Area. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park features more than 40 attractions, including nine roller coasters and a water park named South Bay Shores.
1.7 km · theme park in Santa Clara, California · Wikipedia - 03Mission College
Mission College is a public community college in Santa Clara, California. It is part of the West Valley–Mission Community College District.
2.6 km · public community college in Santa Clara, California, United States · Wikipedia - 04University of Silicon Valley
The University of Silicon Valley is a private for-profit university in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley. The school was founded in 1887 as Cogswell Polytechnical College.
2.4 km · private university in San Jose, California, United States · Wikipedia - 05Intel Museum
The Intel Museum, located at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States, has exhibits of Intel's products and history as well as semiconductor technology in general. The museum is open weekdays except holidays.
1.2 km · computer museum · Wikipedia - 06James Lick Mansion
The James Lick Mansion, in Santa Clara, California, United States, is the estate of James Lick, who was the richest man in California at the time of his death in 1876. The estate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1.1 km · building in California, United States · Wikipedia - 07Memorial Cross Park
Memorial Cross Park, also known as Mission Cross Park, is a small 0.34-acre city park in Santa Clara, California which was the second, temporary site of the Mission Santa Clara de Asís, from 1779 to 1784. A large granite cross was donated to the city by a local Lions Club in 1953 and stood there until it was removed in late 2016 following a federal lawsuit filed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
3.2 km · park in Santa Clara, California, United States · Wikipedia - 08Balaji Temple San Jose
The Balaji Temple of San Jose is a Hindu temple located in San Jose, California. Balaji Temple is a spiritual, non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the universal truths of the Vedas and Upanishads in India.
3.6 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia - 09Herguan University
Herguan University was a private, unaccredited, university and alleged visa mill in Sunnyvale, California operated by Ying Qiu Wang. As of 2019, its domain names herguanuniversity.edu and herguanuniversity.org appear to be abandoned.
4 km · unaccredited private university in Sunnyvale, California, United States · Wikipedia - 10Moitozo Park
Moitozo Park is a park in San Jose, California, located in the Rincon district of North San Jose.
1.7 km · park in San Jose, California, United States · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Agnews Developmental Center
- Airports
- Mineta San Jose (SJC), 4 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 43 km · San Francisco (SFO), 45 km
- Stations
- Santa Clara – Great America station, 1.9 km · Q5598621, 2.2 km · Q5069966, 1.7 km · Q6370963, 3.6 km · Q6543437, 1.8 km
- Oakland → Agnews Developmental Center4307 km · quickest by air, 10h 26m · $520–790
- San Francisco → Agnews Developmental Center4321 km · quickest by air, 10h 11m · $510–770
- Sacramento → Agnews Developmental Center4211 km · quickest by air, 11h 37m · $490–750
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Agnews Developmental Center
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Agnews Developmental Center. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextLess than an hour away over the scenic Santa Cruz Mountains, the small coastal city of Santa Cruz is a nice day trip out of San Jose.
From Wikivoyage: San Jose (California), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 011,194 km
- 021,276 km
- 031,319 km
- 041,341 km
- 051,388 km
If you know how people move in Agnews Developmental Center – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Agnews Developmental Center
Agnews Developmental Center is 8 km from San Jose, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alvisoneighborhood of San Jose, California, United States3.7 km
- Agnew's Villagehuman settlement in California, United States of America500 m