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Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɜːr k l i / BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
South Berkeley – Roughly bounded by Telegraph Avenue, Dwight Way, and the Oakland city limits. Harmon Tract – Centered on the intersection of Sacramento Street and Harmon Street. LeConte District – Bounded by Telegraph, Dwight, Shattuck, and Ashby, named for the LeConte Elementary School in the District
Downtown Berkeley is the central business district of the city of Berkeley, California, United States, around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr. Way, and east to Oxford Street.
The design of the Berkeley City Hall was derived from the Town Hall at Tours, France, designed by Victor Laloux. [3] The building design by architects John Bakewell Jr., and Arthur Brown Jr. for the old city hall was selected as the winner of a 1907 competition to replace the original Town Hall which had burned to the ground in 1904 (designed by Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom, 1884). [3]
This is a list of landmarks in Berkeley, California. [1] "Berkeley Landmarks", "Structures of Merit", and "Historic Districts" are a classification given by the City of Berkeley for buildings or areas of local historic importance. [2] As of 2022, there are 346 listed landmarks by the city of Berkeley.
The Berkeley Historic Civic Center District is a 9.9-acre (4.0 ha) historic district in Berkeley, California, U.S. [2] [3] [4] It comprises portions of a five-block area surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, primarily made up of civic-related buildings.
West Berkeley was also home to Fantasy Studios, a film and music production company. The drug manufacturer Bayer, who bought Cutter Labs, has a large manufacturing facility in West Berkeley and is the city's largest private-sector employer. In 2009, it contemplated leaving the Berkeley campus to reduce costs, but as of 2014 it has instead ...
The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges, and overlook the northeast side of the valley that encompasses San Francisco Bay.They were previously called the "Contra Costa Range/Hills" [2] [3] (from the original Spanish Sierra de la Contra Costa), but with the establishment of Berkeley and the University of California, the name was updated by geographers and gazetteers.