PCAD - University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA

Off Gayley Road
Berkeley, CA 94704

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The Greek Theatre hosted its first events in mid-May 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt, a personal friend of University of California President, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, addressed graduates during commencement activities on 05/14/1903.

Julia Morgan assisted John Galen Howard on the design of the Greek Theatre, and had perhaps more responsibility than simply assisting. In the words of Sara Holmes Boutelle, "Morgan worked with him [Howard] on the Hearst Memorial Mining Building and is said to have designed the campus's Greek Theatre." (See Sara Holmes Boutelle, "Julia Morgan," in Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective," [New York, NY: 1977], p.80.)

Architect, Ernest Born, undertook alterations on the facility in 1957.

PCAD id: 3371

Publications

"Greek Theatre at the University of California", American Architect, 104: 257, 12/31/1913. "Greek theaters, Pompeii : Greek theaters, Bradfield, Berkshire, and at Berkeley, Cal.", Architectural Review (Boston), 18 new series: 1, 26-27, 3/1912. Howard, John Galen, "Some recent buildings in California", Builder, 105: 664, 12/19/1913. Fisk, Clotilde G., "The Greek Theatre at the University of California", Overland Monthly, series 2: 43, 143-145.

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University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA (1903)

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