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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Berkeley, California
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This site has served the educational purposes
of the people of California since 1860 when
it became the home of the first public
institutions in Berkeley, the California
Schools for the Deaf and Blind. The Schools
moved to Fremont in 1980 and . . . — — Map (db m179262) HM
This marker designates the area where on March 27, 1772 a scientific team under the auspices of the Empire of Spain stopped on Strawberry Creek to include an observation of is now known as Golden Gate. According to Juan Crespi, diarist, the first . . . — — Map (db m42034) HM
Site of the
Ernest V. Cowell
Memorial Hospital
1930-1993
Built for the
Student Health Service
Original location of the
Physically Disabled
Students Residence Program
1962-1975 — — Map (db m198024) HM
Gilman Hall was built in 1916-17 to accommodate an expanded College of Chemistry under the leadership of Gilbert Newton Lewis. This building provided research laboratories and teaching facilities for faculty and students specializing in physical, . . . — — Map (db m15870) HM
This plaque honors
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
President of the United States
Principal speaker at the
Charter Day ceremony
held in the stadium
March 23, 1962
Edmund G. Brown
Governor of California
Edwin W. Pauley . . . — — Map (db m152612) HM
The Juice Bar Collective
was opened in 1976.
One of Berkeley's first
worker-owned restaurants
which sought to bring
together home cooked
food and social justice to
serve the community.
In memory of
Clea Maciver
A . . . — — Map (db m218917) HM
Former site of the Students' Observatory, completed in 1886 and named in 1951 for Armin Otto Leuschner (1868-1953), Director of the Observatory (1898-1938) and Chair of the Astronomy Department (1900-1938). — — Map (db m114355) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1991
One of Berkeley’s romantic treasures, Orchard Lane is the formal pedestrian entrance to the Panoramic Hill residential neighborhood.
The walk and grand Classical staircase, complete with pillars, . . . — — Map (db m54692) HM
Berkeley History
The Panoramic Hill Historic District typifies Berkeley’s early hillside neighborhoods. Steep and narrow Panoramic Way, carved out in 1888, opened the hill to residential development. University professors and early Sierra Club . . . — — Map (db m54694) HM
Piedmont Way was conceived in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmstead, America’s foremost landscape architect, as the centerpiece of a gracious residential community close beside the College of California, Olmstead envisioned a roadway that would follow the . . . — — Map (db m229320) HM
This is the electromagnet for the world's first major cyclotron. With it, professor Ernest O. Lawrence and others perfected the difficult cyclotron technology. Originally a 27-inch cyclotron, it was converted to a 37-inch instrument in 1937. . . . — — Map (db m91800) HM
In memory of
Our classmates
Who gave their lives
In the service of their country
In the Korean War.
1950-1953
ROTC Classes of 1951
Dedicated September, 2001 — — Map (db m238685) WM
Built by legendary Berkeley architect
William Charles Hays, Wonderland was
designed as a creative sanctuary to soak in the history and wonder of the world. This California Coastal Oak was planted on Jan. 3, 1918 as two trees that united as one. . . . — — Map (db m239022) HM
In the early 20th century, a thriving manufacturing district grew up in southwest Berkeley. This is the site of a former saltwater pump house, located on what was once the east shoreline of San Francisco Bay. The pumps supplied water used in the . . . — — Map (db m54669) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1990
In 1901 architect Bernard Maybeck purchased ten acres of land here in La Loma Park. He built a sprawling brown shingle home for his family down the street in 1909 and subdivided the rest of his land . . . — — Map (db m53862) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1995
The Glass House is considered one of the best residential works of Wurster, who was the founding dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. This simply detailed, shed roof house was built . . . — — Map (db m53858) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1982
Berkeley architect and civic leader Walter H. Ratcliff, Jr. designed the Hillside School as one his last public commissions. The school takes its name from the Hillside Club, an early 20th-century . . . — — Map (db m53861) HM
Ina Donna Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate and the nation's
first state laureate, was considered "the pearl of all her tribe” by her
19th century colleagues during the Bay Area's first literary heyday.
Born Josephine Donna Smith, . . . — — Map (db m152606) HM
Outcroppings of weathered rock are a prominent feature of the Berkeley Hills, providing evidence of this area’s complex geological past. Composed of Northbrae rhyolite, Indian Rock is an ancient volcanic remnant. Native Ohlone communities gathered . . . — — Map (db m53852) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 2001
In 1919 John and Ada Hinkel donated seven hillside areas to the City of Berkeley in appreciation of the Boy Scouts’ service to the nation during the First World War. Before making their gift, the . . . — — Map (db m53849) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1995
When the La Loma Park subdivision was created in 1900, the streets were laid out in harmony with the natural contours of the land as advocated by Berkeley’s Hillside Club. The rustic quality of the . . . — — Map (db m53884) HM
Mortar Rock takes its name from the many holes worn in these hard lavas by Native American women pounding and grinding acorns and other seeds into meal. This staple food could be stored and later cooked into cakes or porridge.
Native Americans . . . — — Map (db m53850) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
Designated in 2001
North Branch Berkeley Public Library
James W. Plachek, Architect, 1936
North Branch Library is one of Berkeley’s many civic buildings by James Plachek, including the Central Library (1930), . . . — — Map (db m15868) HM
Berkeley's Northbrae residential subdivision was opened in 1907 by the Mason-McDuffie Company, John Galen Howard - then Supervising Architect of the University of California - designed the Circle and the stairways, benches, and stone pillars used . . . — — Map (db m36674) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1991
Rose Walk was designed by Bernard Maybeck and completed in 1913 with donations from the neighbors. The walkway linked the Euclid Avenue streetcar line with residences higher on the hill.
After . . . — — Map (db m53859) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1993
The residential subdivision of Thousand Oaks was incorporated into Berkeley in 1920. On this site, one year earlier, a new school building overlooking Blackberry Creek was built to replace wooden . . . — — Map (db m53847) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1992
In one of Berkeley’s more eccentric experiments in living, Charles and Florence Boynton built their family residence as a version of a Greco-Roman temple with no walls. Two circular, open-air porches . . . — — Map (db m53864) HM
Berkeley History
In the early 1900s, the natural beauty of this undeveloped district, with dramatic rock outcroppings and ancient oaks made it a favorite destination for picnickers and hikers.
After a campaign to make the area a city park . . . — — Map (db m53848) HM
Berkeley's original shoreline was about where Second Street and the eastern side of Aquatic Park are located today. In 1853 a private wharf was built at the foot of what is now Delaware Street, and a working waterfront with factories and piers . . . — — Map (db m155983) HM
In the early spring of 1968, a handful of community members led over
120 of their Historic McGee-Spaulding District neighbors in petitioning
the city to buy this property for use as a tot lot and to prevent further
apartment development in this . . . — — Map (db m191127) HM
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
This was Berkeley’s City Hall from 1909 to 1977. It sits on the site of the Town Hall that burned in 1904. It remains a source of civic pride and a symbol of Berkeley. Now commonly known as . . . — — Map (db m52398) HM
Bobby Seale
class of 1954, while attending Merrit
College, he joined the Afro-American
Association (AAA) and met Huey P.
Newton. Together in 1966, they founded
the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
Jean Yonemura Wing
class of . . . — — Map (db m154869) HM
[Marker #1]
In Memory of Those Who
Made the
Supreme Sacrifice
in the World War
C T Vinther • J T Gimbel • A H Ohman
Berkeley Parlor No 210 Native Sons of the Golden West
[Marker #2]
This Tree . . . — — Map (db m221928) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1984
Constructed in 1925 when Berkeley’s population was growing rapidly, this building accommodated a variety of civic services next to City Hall. The Department of Milk Inspection, which assured the purity . . . — — Map (db m54215) HM
The District was part of the land granted by the king of Spain in 1820 to the Luis Peralta Family. The land was later purchased from Jose Domingo Peralta by four San Francisco businessmen. In 1855, James McGee (1814-1899), a newly arrived Irish . . . — — Map (db m29071) HM
In 1855, Irish-born James McGee (1814-1899) bought 115 acres of
the old Peralta rancho – now the McGee Tract - for farmland. Later
he donated land for the city's first Catholic convent, school, and
church. He was one of Berkeley's first . . . — — Map (db m154875) HM
Berkeley's Ohlone Dog Park, situated along a strip of land cleared in the 1960s
for BART undergrounding, is widely considered the world''s first dog park.
Development plans for the area were upended when activists occupied and
dubbed the strip . . . — — Map (db m137042) HM
From 1877 to 1988
the Sisters of the Presentation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
operated Berkeley's first convent
and parochial school on this block.
The land was donated by
Berkeley pioneer James McGee.
The grounds included a garden and grotto . . . — — Map (db m137043) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 2005
These entry gates help define one of Berkeley’s most gracious residential areas, Claremont Court, which was designed to attract the growing number of prosperous Bay Area professionals in the early . . . — — Map (db m54800) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1984
Claremont, a 1905 subdivision, was originally part of the 125-acre Edson Adams ranch. Early advertisements for the tract enticed families to leave the noisy, crowded city behind and head for . . . — — Map (db m54679) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1983
John Muir School was built beside Harwood Creek on land once part of a 19th-century country estate. The half-timbered style reflects the scale and architecture of the neighborhood and the nearby . . . — — Map (db m54682) HM
The Star Grocery, one of Berkeley's oldest and most beloved
family-run businesses, was founded in 1922 by Greek immigrant
brothers Nick and Jim Pappas. They originally hand delivered groceries
in wicker baskets which, as the business flourished, . . . — — Map (db m154319) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1994
“To Inculcate the Highest Standards and Ideals in Business.”
That lofty aim, incised high on the façade of this graceful Spanish Colonial building, guided Armstrong College for more . . . — — Map (db m54513) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1978
James Loring Baker was an early Berkeley landowner, developer, and civic leader. He was one of the signers of the incorporation papers for the Town of Berkeley and it was he who delivered them to . . . — — Map (db m54332) HM
Chinaka Hodge
class of 2002, started writing and
performing poems as an awkward, pimply,
BHS freshman, and art-making
saved her life. She is a playwright,
poet and performer.
Phil Lesh
class of 1957, played the trumpet while
at . . . — — Map (db m154873) HM
1939-1940
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1982
These buildings are fine examples of the Art Deco style in the Bay Area. They were designed as an ensemble with the adjacent Berkeley High School Community Theater. Bas-reliefs and . . . — — Map (db m54218) HM
James W. Plachek, Architect, 1930
Addition, Ripley/BOORA Architects, 1999
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Berkeley’s first free public library system was established in 1895, with branches in west and south Berkeley. The . . . — — Map (db m52364) HM
Originating among working class Englishmen in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association was brought to North America in 1851 to promote a "full and balanced life" through religious devotion and athletic activity. Berkeley's charter organization . . . — — Map (db m50295) HM
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
For nearly a half century, this steel frame and concrete structure, clad in brick and terra cotta, was Berkeley’s only “skyscraper.” Walter Ratcliff, highly respected for his fine . . . — — Map (db m52316) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1991
Berkeley’s Elks Club, the 1002nd Chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was founded in 1905, just in time for members to assist those displaced by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. . . . — — Map (db m54262) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 2006
This reinforced concrete building with its articulated brick facade and simple classical detailing was built for Harvey and Marie Ennor at a time of energetic downtown development. They expanded a . . . — — Map (db m54337) HM
City of Berkeley Structure of Merit
designated in 2000
William Wharff, Architect, 1909
Renovation, The Bay Architects, 2001
During Berkeley's early 20th-century development boom, the F.D. Chase Real Estate
Company constructed this . . . — — Map (db m174424) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated 1985
The Farm Credit Administration built this structure to house federal agricultural banking and financial agencies, including one of the 12 Federal Land Banks that assisted Depression-era farmers. Features . . . — — Map (db m54258) HM
Berkeley’s large immigrant population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries included many natives of Sweden. The local chapter of the Swedish-American Vasa Order constructed this building as a lodge hall and cultural center. On November 8, . . . — — Map (db m52386) HM
Stone and Smith, Architects 1901
Jim Novosel: The Bay Architects 1998
Berkeley’s transit pattern was established in 1876 when Francis Kittredge Shattuck and James L. Barker brought a spur line of the Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) . . . — — Map (db m52378) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1986
g. Paul Bishop Studio
Carl Fox, Designer
Fox Bros., Builders, 1938-39
Notwithstanding its steel-sash showcase window, this diminutive . . . — — Map (db m238704) HM
Listed on the National Record of Historic Places
In 1877, English immigrant John G. Wright founded the Golden Sheaf, Berkeley's first wholesale/retail bakery. The original bakery, with a public dining room, stood around the corner on Shattuck . . . — — Map (db m50360) HM
James W. Plachek, Architect 1917
Jim Novesel: The Bay Architects 1994
This small commercial building was built for William Heywood, son of Berkeley pioneer Zimri Brewer Heywood. The upstairs was used as the architectural offices of James W. . . . — — Map (db m52382) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1983
This Zig-Zag Moderne building, designed for the sale and servicing of Buick automobiles, captures the glamour, rising affluence, and sophistication of the post-World War I era. Charles Howard, who . . . — — Map (db m54334) HM
In Memoriam
Jos. H. McCourt
1877 – 1900
Co. F. 8th Cal Inf. U.S.V. – Co. I. 35th Inf. U.S.V.
———
Bruno L. Putzker
1880 – 1899
Btry. K. 3rd U.S. Army
Berkeley men killed in action in . . . — — Map (db m52400) HM
Charles Dickey, whose firm designed the Claremont Hotel and who practiced architecture extensively in California and Hawaii, designed this building with two residential floors above commercial storefronts. From 1921 to 1935 the ground floor was . . . — — Map (db m52313) HM
In 1876 the Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) Railroad expanded into downtown Berkeley. What is now Shattuck Square was the site of freight yards; Berkeley Station was located on the smaller block to the south. By 1903, as the business . . . — — Map (db m52384) HM
Samuel H. Kress began his chain of retail stores around 1900 and soon these “five and dime” variety stores dotted downtowns across America. Kress’s own company architects designed stores of high quality and adapted them to fit into the . . . — — Map (db m52380) HM
Shattuck Square is a group of three buildings constructed on the site of a former railroad freight yard, as a northern anchor to Berkeley’s historic downtown commercial district. It is the city’s only work by the San Francisco architectural firm . . . — — Map (db m52391) HM
In the 1940s painter David Park (1911-1960) had a studio in a brick building that once occupied this site. Despite a well-received exhibition of his abstract expressionist works at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1948, Park rejected abstraction . . . — — Map (db m52388) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1998
By 1900, downtown Berkeley had developed around Shattuck Avenue, its main street. On this site, owned by John Hinkel, stood a brick livery stable run by John Fitzpatrick, the early operator of the . . . — — Map (db m54346) HM
An apple orchard, two houses, and a tailor shop once occupied this block. In 1879, six local businessmen and a university professor financed the purchase of part of the block near Oxford Street as the site for one of the city’s first public schools. . . . — — Map (db m54336) HM
On the morning of September 17, 1923, a grass fire spread from Wildcat Canyon over the hills into Berkeley. Driven by hot, dry winds, the fire spread rapidly across the northeast residential districts of the city, burning as far south and west as . . . — — Map (db m54213) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1984
John Tupper and Lawrence Reed constructed this building for their music store, which they had established in Berkeley in 1906. University of California art professor Eugen Neuhaus complimented them . . . — — Map (db m54507) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1980
Berkeley’s elegant Main Post Office is representative of the Second Renaissance Revival style, also called Neo-Classical Revival. Government buildings constructed in this era were designed to . . . — — Map (db m54260) HM
In the early 1920s Alameda County voters approved a special tax to construct buildings that would honor war veterans and provide a meeting place for their organizations. The City of Berkeley contributed the land for this building. Designed in the . . . — — Map (db m52399) HM
From 1885 to the end of his life his home stood about fifty yards east of this spot
"He who is a blessing for his time is a blessing for all time" — — Map (db m174416) HM
This compact complex of buildings linked by a series of arcades and academic quads in the English tradition was created to house one of Berkeley's oldest seminaries. Hobart Hall, designed by Julia Morgan, is notable for its elaborate brickwork, . . . — — Map (db m50801) HM
Berkeley Repertory Theatre was founded in 1968 by U.C.
Dramatic Art student Michael Leibert, who wanted o create
an East Bay professional repertory company. Its first production, "Woyzek;” initially staged at the International
House, soon . . . — — Map (db m154321) HM
Bill Gulley started "Bill's Model Shoe Shop” here in 1934,
after his previous business enterprise of bootlegging ended
with the repeal of Prohibition. When he died in 1966, his
daughter, Mary Jane "Peggy” Casey, and her daughters . . . — — Map (db m154320) HM
This park honors the memory of
Frances Elizabeth Willard
1839 - 1898
Feminist
Founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
Fighter for women's rights and free public education
First woman college president
First Dean of . . . — — Map (db m239025) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1982
John and Margaret Gorman moved their furniture and upholstery shop to this location in 1880. It is one of Berkeley's oldest commercial buildings and a surviving example of the . . . — — Map (db m29371) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 2005
This corner store was built for Stella King’s dry goods business and upstairs residence. Until the shop closed in 1923, it was a gathering place where neighbors could find everything from sewing . . . — — Map (db m54722) HM
Robert Agers constructed this building to manufacture "the very best soda water" for customers throughout California. The recessed storefronts, second-floor oriel windows, and high false front are all largely unchanged from a 1904 expansion. The . . . — — Map (db m29383) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1982
Built as the Strand Theater in the Art Nouveau architectural style, this was one of the neighborhood’s first commercial structures. Admission was ten cents for adults, five for children and the theater . . . — — Map (db m54813) HM
On a once rural site now bordered by Russell Street, College Avenue, and Stuart Street, the Kelsey family planted orchards and grew ornamental plants on land they purchased in 1860. The 24-acre Kelsey Ranch supplied trees and plants for the grounds . . . — — Map (db m54691) HM
The Rose Garden was a joint creation of the City of Berkeley and the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), whose public works provided employment during the Depression. Vernon M. Dean, the City's landscape architect, designed the garden in a . . . — — Map (db m18618) HM
By the late 1960s, a new generation of political activists emerged in Berkeley from protests opposing the
Vietnam War and supporting the Farmworkers, Free Speech, and Civil Rights movements. In May 1968, in an
apartment on this site, Yuji Ichioka . . . — — Map (db m154322) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1992
Arriving in Berkeley from Massachusetts, Edward Brakenridge bought property that extended to Rose Street for this large Queen Anne-style residence, a stable, and a carriage house. Ira Boynton, like . . . — — Map (db m54512) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 2004
The Hillside Club was founded in 1898 by Berkeley women intent on preserving the natural beauty of the hills. It soon became an influential cultural force. North Berkeley’s curved streets with old . . . — — Map (db m54186) HM
Live Oak Park was created in 1914 when the City of Berkeley purchased four acres from landowners R.S. Penniman and Michael O’Toole. Mr. Penniman’s brown shingle house served as the park clubhouse and also, from 1916-1936, as Berkeley’s North Branch . . . — — Map (db m194669) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1999
When architect James Plachek was hired at the age of 29 to design this church, it was his first major commission in Berkeley. He later designed many public and commercial buildings, including the . . . — — Map (db m54187) HM
A revolution began here in 1966 when Alfred H. Peet (1920-2007) opened his first coffee roastery and store. Arriving in San Francisco in 1955, “Mr. Peet” was dismayed by the poor quality of coffee in his adopted country. He had learned . . . — — Map (db m54188) HM
City of Berkeley Structure of Merit
designated in 1988
German immigrant George Hunrick built one of Berkeley’s many neighborhood groceries on this site when the north Berkeley hills were in an early stage of development. In those days before home . . . — — Map (db m54189) HM
In 1858, prosperous farmer Napoleon Bryne sold his Missouri land and journeyed west with his wife Mary Tanner Byrne, four children and other relatives. Two freed slaves, Pete and Hannah Byrnes, came with the family and became Berkeley’s first known . . . — — Map (db m54728) HM
This garden honors Berkeley’s many innovative poets, poetry presses and publications, and their creative legacy. It was dedicated in 1999 on the second anniversary of “Beat” poet Allen Ginsberg’s death. Through their writings, the nonconformist . . . — — Map (db m54191) HM
City of Berkeley Landmark
designated in 1984
This reinforced concrete Moderne-style building replaced an 1892 wood frame school. Faculty of the original school planted the five Coast Redwoods at the southwestern edge of the school grounds. The . . . — — Map (db m54192) HM
Here a venerable oak tree was saved by Annie Maybeck (1867-1956), wife of architect Bernard Maybeck. She is said to have "marched off to city hall" to protest the cutting of native trees during street paving early in the 20th Century. She and other . . . — — Map (db m18562) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1986
Allenoke is the only large estate remaining near the northern edge of the University of California campus. It was designed by Ernest Coxhead for Allen Freeman, President of the Bank of Oakland. . . . — — Map (db m53888) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1986
When prominent educator Benjamin Ide Wheeler became president of the University of California in 1899, he and his wife built this spacious home. They entertained many dignitaries here, including . . . — — Map (db m53890) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1983
In the late 1890s a group of concerned women formed the Hillside Club to “encourage artistic homes built of materials complementing the natural beauty of the Berkeley Hills.” The Club soon . . . — — Map (db m53886) HM
City of Berkeley Landmarks
designated in 1996
This is one of the earliest houses built in the north Berkeley hills. George Jensen came from Denmark and was a contractor in Los Angeles before moving to Berkeley. Members of the Jensen family lived . . . — — Map (db m53887) HM
Robert Hale Merriman, a UC Berkeley graduate student studying economics during the early 1930s, was among the first Americans to give his life in the fight against fascism. During the Spanish Civil War, Merriman was a commanding officer of the . . . — — Map (db m152785) HM
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