The Hillside Club is a neighborhood social club established in 1898 by residents of Berkeley, California 's newly formed Northside neighborhood to protect the hills from unsightly grading and unsuitable buildings. It took its cue from the Arts and Crafts movement . The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 2004, under the name "Berkeley Hillside Club"; and listed as a Berkeley Landmark (no. 266) by the city since January 12, 2004.
17-421: Prominent early club members included architects Bernard Maybeck and John Galen Howard , author Charles Keeler , and the journalist Frank Morton Todd . Maybeck designed the original 1906 clubhouse, which was destroyed in the 1923 Berkeley Fire . John White, Maybeck's brother-in-law, designed the current clubhouse in 1924. Among the club's first projects was the construction of Hillside Elementary School for
34-590: A Spanish Eclectic style. In his long-time home city of Berkeley, the 1910 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley is designated a National Historic Landmark and is considered one of his masterpieces. In 1914 he oversaw the building of the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley. On flatter sites such as the city of San Francisco, the campus of the University of California, Berkeley , and
51-573: A German immigrant and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. He moved to Berkeley, California , in 1892. He taught engineering drawing and architectural design at the University of California, Berkeley from 1894 to 1903, and acted as a mentor for a number of other important California architects, including Julia Morgan and William Wurster . In 1951, he was awarded the Gold Medal of
68-950: A clubhouse at the Bohemian Grove , and many of the buildings on the campus of Principia College in Elsah, Illinois . A lifetime fascination with drama and the theater can be seen in much of Maybeck's work. In his spare time, he was known to create costumes, and also designed sets for the amateur productions at the Hillside Club. Bernard Maybeck died in 1957 and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California . Notable works include: First Church of Christ, Scientist (Berkeley, California) First Church of Christ, Scientist , Berkeley, now also known as Christian Science Society, Berkeley ,
85-679: A square or Greek cross , with two pair of great crossed trusses spanning the central space overhead. In 1929 a Sunday School addition was added to the Church. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977, and is on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County, California . In October 2005, the Friends of First Church Berkeley were awarded a prestigious federal Save America's Treasurers (SAT) Grant, for
102-644: Is a Christian Science church , located at 2619 Dwight Way at Bowditch Street across the street from People's Park , in Berkeley , in Alameda County, California . The Christian Science Society, Berkeley continues to meet in their over-100-year-old church building. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley held its first service in Wilkin's Hall, 2412 Haste Street, on Sunday, March 12, 1905, and its present membership— October, 1905—is forty-eight. A lot
119-556: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was one of the designers of the San Francisco Swedenborgian Church , which included the first Mission Style chair. me=nris/> For the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition , he designed the domed Palace of Fine Arts and also the "House of Hoo Hoo", a "lumberman's lodge" made of rough-barked tree trunks. The Palace of Fine Arts was seen as
136-718: The American Institute of Architects . Maybeck was equally comfortable producing works in the American Craftsman , Mission Revival , Gothic revival , Arts and Crafts , and Beaux-Arts styles, believing that each architectural problem required development of an entirely new solution. While working in the office of A. Page Brown in San Francisco, Maybeck probably contributed to the Mission Style California Building at
153-531: The ultimate bungalows of the architects Greene and Greene . Maybeck had many ideas about town planning that he elaborated throughout his career. As a citizen of Berkeley from the 1890s, he was intimately involved in the Hillside Club . His associations and work there helped evolve ideas about hillside communities. Maybeck developed a number of firm beliefs in how civilization and the land should relate to each other. Two overriding principles would be: 1)
170-555: The Berkeley Public Schools. 37°52′30″N 122°15′37″W / 37.8751°N 122.26018°W / 37.8751; -122.26018 This Alameda County, California building and structure-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bernard Maybeck Bernard Ralph Maybeck (February 7, 1862 – October 3, 1957) was an American architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of
187-484: The East Bay were also a conscientious counterpoint to across the bay where in San Francisco city planning was much more conventional, forced, and regimented into expansive grids of streets. Its grids, imposed in places on very steep grades, resulted in extremely steep streets, sidewalks and urban transitions, some almost comically so. He also developed a comprehensive town plan for the company town of Brookings, Oregon ,
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#1732794362037204-664: The Loch Lin General Plan for Principia College in Illinois, his proposals were guided by more formal Beaux Arts planning principles. One of Maybeck's most interesting office buildings is the home of the Family Service Agency of San Francisco at 1010 Gough Street, from 1928, which is on the city's Historic Building Register. Some of his larger residential projects, particularly those in the Berkeley hills such as La Loma Park , have been compared to
221-653: The early 20th century. He worked primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area , designing public buildings, including the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco , and also private houses, especially in Berkeley , where he lived and taught at the University of California . A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Maybeck was born in New York City, the son of
238-625: The embodiment of Maybeck's elaboration of how Roman architecture could fit within a California context. Maybeck said that the popular success of the Palace was due to the absence of a roof connecting the rotunda to the art gallery building, along with the absence of windows in the gallery walls and the presence near the rotunda of trees, flowers and a water feature . In 1928, he designed the Harrison Memorial Library in Carmel in
255-440: The primacy of the landscape - geology, flora and fauna were not to be subdued by architecture so much as enhanced by architecture 2) roads should pattern the existing grade and not be an imposition upon it. There were other principles he would elucidate, such as a shared public landscape, but these were key, and helped Berkeley evolve into a paradigm for hillside living that was organic and unique. Maybeck's visions for communities in
272-448: The roof replacement and seismic strengthening of the 1910 Church and much of the 1929 Sunday School addition. The church received a Getty Architectural Conservation Implementation Grant in 2006, to enable the completion of the seismic strengthening of the Church and Sunday School addition. In 2009 and 2010, the Friends of First Church Berkeley received University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Community Partnership Grants for restoring
289-458: Was bought (2892 Dwight Way) in June, and a church building will be erected later on. The historic 1910 church was designed by renowned architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1862–1957), in a primarily American Craftsman style , with Byzantine Revival , Romanesque Revival , and Gothic Revival style elements. The church is widely considered one of Maybeck's masterpieces . The basic plan is that of
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