Article: Berkeley by foot: architectural landmarks inspire walkers to take in the history of this Northern California college town. (includes travel information)

Architectural landmarks inspire walkers to take in the history of this Northern California college town.

Set among cypress and eucalyptus trees, a brown-shingled house sits on a hillside above the University of California campus in Berkeley. The 1910 house, my home late in the 1960s, is but one of 100 or so designed by the city's most renowned architect, Bernard Maybeck (1862-1957). The hours and hours I spent here - gazing out to the Golden Gate through my wisteria-framed windows and savoring the early evening's flood of amber light - supplied some of my happiest memories of my Berkeley days. Although the presence of Nobel Laureates like physicists Luis Alvarez and ...

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