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Coordinates: 37.87411°N 122.26217°W. The campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and its surrounding community are home to a number of notable buildings by early 20th-century campus architect John Galen Howard, his peer Bernard Maybeck (best known for the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts), and their colleague Julia Morgan.
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10] [11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system.
Sather Tower. Sather Tower is a bell tower with clocks on its four faces on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It is more commonly known as The Campanile (/ ˌkæmpəˈniːli, - leɪ / KAMP-ə-NEE-lee, -lay, also US: / ˌkɑːm -/ KAHMP-) for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice. It is a recognizable ...
Sather Gate is a prominent landmark separating Sproul Plaza from the bridge over Strawberry Creek, leading to the center of the University of California, Berkeley campus. The gate was donated by Jane K. Sather, a benefactor of the university, in memory of her late husband Peder Sather, a trustee of the College of California, which later became the University of California.
English: Campus of the UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California, United States. Photo taken on Memorial Glade, showing the Doe Memorial Library as well as Sather Tower (The Campanile) in the background. Photo taken on Memorial Glade, showing the Doe Memorial Library as well as Sather Tower (The Campanile) in the background.
Sproul Plaza as well as Sproul Hall are named for the last (1930–1952) University of California, Berkeley president, Robert Gordon Sproul. The Plaza was designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin in 1962. At the time, the university was expanding its core campus southward from its prior border at Strawberry Creek to Bancroft Avenue, and ...
November 5, 1974. Designated BERKL. February 25, 1991. Senior Hall is a historic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, in Berkeley, California. The rustic log cabin structure was designed by architect John Galen Howard. The building was proposed in 1903 and dedicated in 1906. It was originally used as the university's ...
March 25, 1982. Designated BERKL. February 25, 1991 [2] South Hall is the oldest building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, built in 1873 in the Napoleon III style. It is the only remaining building of the original campus. South Hall was originally the counterpart of North Hall, which no longer exists, but was located ...