California Hall is one of the original "classical core" Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival buildings on the UC Berkeley campus. Construction began in 1903 under the lead of University Architect John G
California Hall in 2006
Spanish roofing tiles (tejas)
Example of a pressed herbarium specimen (Astragalus danicus Herbar)
John Galen Howard, 1886
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
California Hall (UC Berkeley)
…California Hall is one of the original "classical core" Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival buildings on the UC Berkeley campus. Construction began in 1903 under the lead of University Architect John Galen Howard after the university's adoption of the Phoebe Hearst master…
Built in 1873, South Hall is one of the few original buildings still standing on the Berkeley campus
View west from Sather Tower towards the Golden Gate, along Campanile Way. Most of the visible buildings flanking this main east–west axis are in the "classic core" of the campus.
Sather Gate marks the original southern entrance to the campus, and now the entrance from Sproul Plaza
Wheeler Hall, built to represent John Galen Howard's "City of Learning" design, currently houses the campus' largest lecture hall