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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMODK_berkeley-municipal-pier_Berkeley-CA.html
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 dev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPY_davis-byrne-building_Berkeley-CA.html
This building was originally part of the small commercial district that grew up around Dwight Way Station where Shattuck Avenue commuter trains intersected with the horse-car line that ran up Dwight Way to the California Schools for the Deaf and B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJL0_soda-works-building_Berkeley-CA.html
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 b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKO_j-gorman-son-building_Berkeley-CA.html
City of Berkeley Landmarkdesignated 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 Victorian-era "corner st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJCW_historic-mcgee-spaulding-district_Berkeley-CA.html
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 im…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYW_church-of-the-good-shepherd_Berkeley-CA.html
This is Berkeley's oldest remaining church building and the oldest church in the East Bay still in continuous use by its founding congregation. The one-story Victorian Gothic-style building was built here on what was Bristol Street, before it was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC7Z_berkeley-municipal-rose-garden_Berkeley-CA.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC6L_annies-oak_Berkeley-CA.html
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 othe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMACJ_berkeley-city-club_Berkeley-CA.html
The Berkeley City Club, organized in 1927, was one of the area's earliest attempts by women to social, civic and cultural progress. The building, constructed in 1929, is one of the outstanding works of noted California architect Julia Morgan, whos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAC7_gilman-hall_Berkeley-CA.html
Gilman Hall was built in 1916-17 to accomodate 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, i…