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City of Berkeley Landmarksdesignated in 1995When 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 stone…
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City of Berkeley Landmarksdesignated in 1992In 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 wer…
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City of Berkeley Landmarksdesignated in 1990In 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 into…
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City of Berkeley Landmarksdesignated in 1982Berkeley 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 Berkel…
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City of Berkeley Landmarkdesignated in 1991Rose 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 the 192…
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City of Berkeley Landmarkdesignated in 1995The 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 on a…
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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 …
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