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FALL HOUSE TOUR
Sunday, September 22, 2024
1 - 5:00 PM | $40 General Admission | $30 for BAHA Members

The tour will take you inside houses designed by local architects Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, and into the house John Hudson Thomas designed for his own family. The tour will take you to rock walls that were constructed by extraordinary stonemasons, to remarkable parks, and to view the exterior of a Northbrae home of a holocaust hero, as well as the homes of scores of professors, musicians, and scientists. Altogether, eight residences will be open for viewing. The research that supports this tour and introduces you to the history of Northbrae will be discussed at an accompanying talk on September 12th.

Tickets on sale now by check to: BAHA, mailed to P. O. Box 1137, Berkeley, California 94701,
and through Eventbrite

HOUSE TOUR LECTURE
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley
6 PM Reception with Wine & Hors d'oeuvres;
7 PM In-person & Online Streaming
$25 for In-person | $15 for Online Streaming
(wine tickets on sale at the event, $5 per glass)

The talk by U.C.B. Professor Margaretta Lovell grows out of an ongoing project to research and document the core section of Northbrae, a development laid out by Mason McDuffie Co. in 1906. From rolling grassland threaded by creeks with an open canopy of sparse oaks, this now densely-built residential neighborhood, a mile north of the University, was conceived and created by real estate entrepreneurs, the Central (Southern) Pacific railroad, creative designers, talented craftsmen, and ordinary householders. Working together and individually, they created homes and unique streetscapes that are extraordinarily various but also, overall, coherent aesthetic achievements that have supported generations of families. Plumbers and grocerymen, clerks and professors, a tennis star, and scores of musicians created community here in the first half of the twentieth century. Professor Lovell, together with cohorts of students and community volunteers, have been working to learn - on a house-by-house basis - Northbrae's architectural and social history. This talk describes this work in progress and serves as an introduction to the September 22 house tour.

Tickets on sale now by check to: BAHA, mailed to P. O. Box 1137, Berkeley, California 94701, and through Eventbrite.

Effective June 19, 2024, the public office hours for the BAHA office are closed.

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