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The University of California Botanical Garden is a 34-acre (13.7 ha) botanical garden located on the University of California, Berkeley campus, in Strawberry Canyon. The garden is in the Berkeley Hills, inside the city boundary of Oakland, with views overlooking the San Francisco Bay. It is one of the most diverse plant collections in the ...
Redwood City Public Library [11] Downtown: 1044 Middlefield Road: Redwood City: 94063 (650)780‑7018 Redwood Shores: 399 Marine Parkway: Redwood City: 94065 (650)780‑5740: Schaberg: 2140 Euclid Avenue: Redwood City: 94061 (650)780‑7010 San Bruno Public Library [12] San Bruno: 701 Angus Avenue West: San Bruno: 94066 (650)616‑7078: San ...
The library system also contains many other departmental and specialized libraries, including the 580,000 volume Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library (the largest of its kind in the West), and the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, which features more than 260,000 books ...
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Stephen Tyng Mather (July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930) [3] was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service.As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire.
Pacific Grove Pacific Grove: Mar 12, 1906: $10,000 550 Central Ave, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 The Pacific Improvement Company donated the land for the new library. The building was designed by the McDougall Brothers in the Mission style. The cornerstone was laid on November 9, 1907, and the Pacific Grove Carnegie Library officially opened on May ...
Doe Memorial Library: University of California, Berkeley campus February 25, 1991 designed by John Galen Howard: 149 Founders' Rock: Hearst Avenue, University of California, Berkeley campus February 25, 1991 150 Giannini Hall: University Drive, University of California, Berkeley campus February 25, 1991 151 Room 307, Gilman Hall
Berkeley's initial public library building, funded by a Carnegie grant in 1903, was designed by John Galen Howard, the Beaux Arts architect of the University of California. The library's expansion requests in 1913 and the subsequent voter-approved library building tax in 1921 and 1925 foreshadowed its need for growth.