University House
The University House is a residence and venue for official events on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Designed by the architect Albert Pissis and completed in 1911, it was formerly named President's House while it served as the home of the president of the University of California, starting with Benjamin Ide Wheeler and ending with Robert Gordon Sproul.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: University building
- Description: building in California, United States
- Also known as: “University House, Berkeley”
- Address: CA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include C. V. Starr East Asian Library and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
C. V. Starr East Asian Library
Library
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C. V. Starr East Asian Library is situated 650 feet southeast of University House.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Museum
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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and film archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is situated 1,800 feet southwest of University House.
Bancroft Library
Library
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The Bancroft Library is the main special collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. The original collection, acquired in 1905 from its founder Hubert Howe Bancroft, is the largest collection of materials on Californian history and Western North America in the world. Bancroft Library is situated 1,300 feet southeast of University House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northside and Downtown Berkeley.
Northside
Neighborhood
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Northside is a principally residential neighborhood in Berkeley, California, located north of the University of California, Berkeley campus, east of Oxford Street, and south of Cedar Street.
Downtown Berkeley
Neighborhood
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Downtown Berkeley is the central business district of the city of Berkeley, California, United States, around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr.
Gourmet Ghetto
Neighborhood
The Gourmet Ghetto is a colloquial name for the North Shattuck business district of the North Berkeley neighborhood in the city of Berkeley, California, known as the birthplace of California cuisine.
University House
- Categories: single-family detached home, building, and education
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.8745° or 37° 52′ 28″ northLongitude
-122.26225° or 122° 15′ 44″ westElevation
302 feet (92 metres)Open location code
849VVPFQ+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
way 24025039OpenStreetMap feature
building=university
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