California Hall
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 architectural plan for the Berkeley campus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: University building
- Description: UC Berkeley campus building
- Also known as: “California Hall (UC Berkeley)”
- Address: CA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Doe Memorial Library and Bancroft Library.
Doe Memorial Library
Library
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The Doe Memorial Library is the main library of the University of California, Berkeley Library System. The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who in 1904 bequeathed funds for its construction.
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 450 feet east of California Hall.
C. V. Starr East Asian Library
Library
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C. V. Starr East Asian Library is situated 600 feet north of California Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northside and Southside.
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.
Southside
Neighborhood
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Southside, also known by the older names South of Campus or South Campus, is a neighborhood in Berkeley, California. Southside is located directly south of and adjacent to the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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.
California Hall
- Categories: building and education
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.87188° or 37° 52′ 19″ northLongitude
-122.26037° or 122° 15′ 37″ westElevation
272 feet (83 metres)Levels
2Open location code
849VVPCQ+QVOpenStreetMap ID
way 24024512OpenStreetMap feature
building=universityWikidata ID
Q5020526
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