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Building History

Harold Wellman Fairbanks (born 08/29/1860 in Conewango, NY-d. 10/10/1952 in Los Angeles County, CA), a noted geologist and geographer, who taught at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), resided at 1825 Arch Street in Berkeley. Fairbanks earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1890 and a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the UCB in 1896. (See University of California Bulletins, New Series, vol. 1, no. 2, "Graduates 1864-1899," [Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1899], p. 36.)

He married Bertha Helena "Minnie" Kemp (born 11/04/1867 in WI-d.06/19/1939 in Los Angeles County, CA) in c. 1888. Harold and Minnie lived here in 1900 with their only child, Helena Kemp Fairbanks (born 07/22/1894 in CA-d. 06/14/1984 in Los Angeles County, CA). According to the 1900 US Census, Harold's parents, Daniel Fairbanks (born 11/22/1831 in Leon, NY-d. 02/06/1906 in Alameda, CA), a farmer and later a canner, and Harriet N. Wellman (born c. 10/1829 in NY-d. 12/28/1907 in CA), lived nearby at 2331 Le Conte Avenue. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Berkeley Ward 1, Alameda, California; Roll: 83; Page: 14; Enumeration District: 0395; FHL microfilm: 1240083, accessed 04/26/2022.)

By 1910, at least, Faribanks and his family had moved from Arch Street and relocated to 1204 Tamalpais Street in Berkeley, where they remained in 1920. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Berkely, Alameda, California; Roll: T624_72; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0040; FHL microfilm: 1374085, accessed 04/26/2022 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California; Roll: T625_93; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 193, accessed 04/26/2022.) Later, the Fairbanks Family would move again to the Los Angeles area, living at 137 Surf Street in the Ocean Park section of Santa Monica in 1936. (See the Los Angeles Directory Company's Santa Monica, California, City Directory, 1936, p. 175.)

Demolition

This house likely burned in the Berkeley Fire of 09/17/1923. The The Institute of Salesian Studies at Don Bosco Hall now occupies its site.

PCAD id: 24356