Site of the Kellogg School

Site of the Kellogg School (HM10RE)

Location: Berkeley, CA 94704 Alameda County
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N 37° 52.203', W 122° 15.967'

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Berkeley History

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. The building was named for Board of Education president Martin Kellogg, the University of California's seventh president. The wood frame Victorian-style Kellogg School had three classrooms and separate entrances for girls and boys. Students ate their lunches along the banks of nearby Strawberry Creek behind the schoolyard.

At the time, high school attendance in California was not compulsory and many working class parents objected to paying taxes for a school their children might not attend and which was far from West Berkeley. With four graduates in 1884, the school became the first high school in the state to be accredited by the University of California.

In 1918 the building served as a place of worship for Berkeley's First Hebrew Congregation. Later, commercial buildings were constructed on the site.
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HM NumberHM10RE
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Year Placed2000
Placed ByBerkeley Historical Plaque Project
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Date Added Monday, September 29th, 2014 at 3:21am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)10S E 564546 N 4191650
Decimal Degrees37.87005000, -122.26611667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 52.203', W 122° 15.967'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 52' 12.18" N, 122° 15' 58.02" W
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Area Code(s)510, 415
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2138 Oxford St, Berkeley CA 94704, US
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