Julia Morgan Hall (Oakland, California)

USA / California / Berkeley / Oakland, California
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Julia Morgan Hall (formerly Girton Hall) is a historic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California. Built in 1911, the building was designed by prominent California architect Julia Morgan. It served as a gathering place for Berkeley's female students, who wanted a female counterpart to Senior Hall, the senior men's meeting hall. The students began planning the hall in 1909 and raised money for the building between 1909 and 1911. The building was first called Girton Hall during this period; the name came from Girton College at the University of Cambridge, which was the first women's residential college in England. When the building opened in 1911, its name changed to the Senior Women's Hall. The hall gave women's groups at Berkeley a place to meet and represented a significant step toward gender equality at the university. In 1969, the building became a campus childcare center. In 2014, the building was moved to this location to make way for a large new structure at its original site.

National Register of Historic Places # 91001473

Berkeley, CA USA
94720
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girton_Hall
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Coordinates:   37°52'29"N   122°14'17"W

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  • This building was moved to the UC Botanical Garden area.
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