Barker Building

Barker Building (HM10RB)

Location: Berkeley, CA 94704 Alameda County
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N 37° 51.855', W 122° 16.063'

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A.W. Smith, Architect

— 1905 —

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 Sacramento in 1878. Baker helped to finance public school buildings and electric lighting for the city, promoted city tree planting, and established the First National Bank of Berkeley. His family home stood nearby on Dwight Way until it was demolished in 1976.

Development began around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Dwight Way in 1876 when "Dwight Way Station" was established here. It was one of four original train stops on the rail line from Oakland into downtown Berkeley along Shattuck Avenue. A horse-car line that ran up Dwight Way to the California School for the Deaf and Blind (now the University of California's Clark Kerr Campus) intersected with the rail line, and Barker hoped that this area would become the center of downtown Berkeley.

Constructed in 1905, the Mission Revival-style Baker Building was damaged the following year by the San Francisco earthquake but was repaired. During the early 1990s it was rehabilitated. In 1996 the owner renamed the building "The Raj Kumar" in memory of his son, a medical student in India, who was killed in a 1986 accident.
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HM NumberHM10RB
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Year Placed1998
Placed ByBerkeley Historical Plaque Project
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Saturday, September 6th, 2014 at 10:18am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10S E 564411 N 4191006
Decimal Degrees37.86425000, -122.26771667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 51.855', W 122° 16.063'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 51' 51.30" N, 122° 16' 3.78" W
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Area Code(s)510, 415
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2480 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley CA 94704, US
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