An article in the S.F. Chronicle about the restoration of a Greene & Greene house in Berkeley, now used as a fraternity house. For years, I went by that house nearly every day on my way to the campus. It is really a work of art. The article is a little short on details, and the photographs with the article don’t do it justice. (One other complaint about the article – at UC, the term “frat” is a derogatory term and just isn’t used there, or at least it was frowned upon when I was there 20 years ago…)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/26/HOL37AMI1.DTL
There are some good books on Greene & Greene architecture. While I try, unfortunately I can’t buy every interesting book there is:
There are some great older houses in Berkeley – Maybeck, Julia Morgan, and other architects. Great place to just wander around.
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Thanks for the info. Nice that they give tours. I might do that next time I'm down to visit family.
"when I was there 20 years ago" I attended 12-14 and 20-24 years ago. So the Stoney Burke comedy routines on the plaza that you saw were the rambling, drug induced ones? Not the poilished but boring ones of later years?
I've taken walking tours of the Maybeck homes on the Northside of campus. There are a bunch of architectural treasures tucked in every other block.
Oh yeah, Stoney, the Naked Guy, the jugglers, the sit ins, the naked women protesters. Sproul Plaza was a great circus... I was there starting with the Free Speech Movement, through the Vietnam/Cambodian protest (got maced in the Plaza by the helicopter, watched the cops beat on grade school kids with their night sticks), People's Park (studied what was to be People's Park in an Architecture class lead by Sim Van Ryn before all the problems, watched the cops pull up flowers), and on through the more boring periods up until 1995.
Ever notice jack-o-lanterns up on campus buildings and monuments on the morning of Nov 2nd each year? Far beyond the reach of the maintenance crews? For at least 15 years now? I'm taking the fifth.David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska