Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - university buildings

Designers: Howard, John Galen, Architect (firm); John Galen Howard (architect)

Dates: constructed 1904, demolished 1953

Optometry Lane
University of California, Berkeley, Campus, Berkeley, CA 94704

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Overview

This utilitarian building, made of corrugated metal, on the east side of the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), campus, between 1904 and 1953.

Building History

In her book John Galen Howard and the University of California, The Design of a Great Public University Campus, Sally B. Woodbridge wrote: "Anthropology Building (1904), a corrugated iron structure that house the Hearst collection; it was raized in 1953 to clear the site for Hertz Hall." (See Sally B. Woodbridge, John Galen Howard and the University of California, The Design of a Great Public University Campus, [Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002], p. 178.)

PCAD id: 25243