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The Berkeley Historic Civic Center District is a 9.9-acre (4.0 ha) ... 1998; [5] and listed as a Berkeley Landmark by the City of Berkeley since December 7, ...
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]
Berkeley Historic Civic Center District - Roughly bounded by McKinney Ave., Addison St., Shattuck Ave., and Kittredge St. Berkeley Public Library - 2090 Kittredge St. Berkeley Women's City Club - 2315 Durant Ave. Boone's University School - 2029 Durant Ave. Bowles Hall - Stadium and Gayley Way; California Hall - Oxford St.
César Chávez Park is a 90 acres (36 ha) city park of Berkeley, California named after César Chávez. [1] It can be found on the peninsula on the north side of the Berkeley Marina in the San Francisco Bay and is adjacent to Eastshore State Park .
On March 10, 1914, the City Council approved an ordinance appropriating $72.500 to purchase the property in order to establish a city park. At that time Berkeley, like many other American cities, was swept up in the City Beautiful Movement, and had recently commissioned a report on city planning, which revealed a lack of public parks.
While still barred from voting on higher-profile races, 16- and 17-year-olds living in Oakland and Berkeley will be able to cast ballots in upcoming school board elections.
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.
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