Hillside Club, Community center in Berkeley, California
The Hillside Club is a 1924 clubhouse on Cedar Street in Berkeley, designed by John White, brother-in-law of Bernard Maybeck. It is a two-story Arts and Crafts building listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as Berkeley Landmark no. 266.
The club was founded in 1898 to protect the local hills from excessive development and maintain neighborhood building standards. The current building was constructed in 1924 following a major fire that destroyed the earlier structure.
The club's name comes from its founding purpose: Northside residents organized in 1898 to keep the hillsides from being cut and built over. Early members included architect Bernard Maybeck, author Charles Keeler and journalist Frank Morton Todd, and the club's first project was building Hillside Elementary School for the Berkeley public schools.
The clubhouse stands at 2286 Cedar Street in Berkeley's Northside, a short walk from the University of California campus. It is a private social club, so the building is normally seen from the street or entered during events open to the public. The surrounding hills rise steeply, and several streets nearby have no sidewalks.
The 1924 clubhouse was designed by John White, Bernard Maybeck's brother-in-law, replacing Maybeck's own 1906 building lost in the 1923 Berkeley Fire. The club is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Berkeley Hillside Club since April 16, 2004, and is Berkeley Landmark no. 266.
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