General Plan of the University of California

Subject: United States
Subject 2: California
Subject 3: Berkeley
Location: Berkeley (California, United States)
Notes: BERKELEY California; General Plan of the University of California (Phoebe Apperson Hearst; Plan) c. 1901 (This shows revision of 1914); John Galen Howard (1864-1931) and H.-J. -Emile Bénard (1844- ); W. Hegemann Collection, Gift of RC Weinberg and GR Collins 1973 (OVER); This Beaux Arts campus plan was the outcome of two international competitions. In the first, judged in Antwerp in 1898, 105 plans were submitted. The eleven premiated architects entered a second competition judged at San Francisco in 1899. Five prizes, ranging from one to five thousand were awarded; the first prize went to Emile Benard of Paris. His drawings formed the basis upon which since 1902, Professor Howard has developed the plan of the University.; See W. Hegemann and E. Peets Civic Art (1922), 116-7
Image Source: Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Photograph Collection, digitized with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Record ID: 2023_photocoll_0165_0042


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