Building History

Erected in 1917, the University of California, Berkeley, Home Economics Building #1, was designed by the prolific and talented campus architect, John Galen Howard (1864-1931). Architectural historian Sally Woodbridge said of its demolition in 2002: "Wooden building located north of the mechanics building, razed in 1930 as a fire hazard." (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.) The Berkeley community suffered a significant fire on 09/17/1923, so fire prevention was a major theme in the immediate years thereafter.

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