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Overview

This house reflected Howard's awareness of the chalet-like, shingled residences designed by Bernard Maybeck and other Berkeley designers, particularly in the hills above Berkeley during the 1890s and 1900s.

Building History

Architect John Galen Howard designed this small, two-floor residence, completed in 1912. This house was completed in the same year as the Warren Gregory House #2 at 1401 Le Roy Avenue, (a house that Howard rented from the Gregory family) and possessed a similar, distinctive, long-and-short shingle pattern.

In 1926, George Rapall Noyes (1873-1952), a Professor of Slavonic Languages at the University of Calfiornia, Berkeley (UCB), and his wife Florence Augusta Paine (1872-1957) resided at 1486 Greenwood Terrace. (See "Linguistic Society of America, List of Members, 1932," Language, vol. 9, no. 1, 03/1933, p. 132.) They lived in this house until at least 1950, according to the US Census. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California; Roll: 3222; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 61-34, accessed 03/11/2025.) In 1920, they lived next-door at 1434 Greenwood Terrace. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California; Roll: T625_93; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 193, accessed 03/11/2025.)

Building Notes

The residence occupied a a 4,807-square-foot lot that overlooked a panoramic view to the south and west.

PCAD id: 25574