{"nrhp_refnum":"78000644","name":"Golden Sheaf Bakery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2069--2071 Addison St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berkeley","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.87120404400008,"lon":-122.26955616099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, classically inspired brick commercial building at 2069-2071 Addison Street in downtown Berkeley, California, built in 1905 as an addition to the Golden Sheaf Bakery and designed by architect Clinton Day.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the building is one of the few surviving brick commercial structures in downtown Berkeley and a fine example of early 20th-century classically inspired commercial design. It is also one of the few remaining buildings by Clinton Day that outlasted the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. It is tied to the Golden Sheaf Bakery, Berkeley's first wholesale/retail bakery, founded in 1877.","narrative":"Built in 1905 on Addison Street in downtown Berkeley, this two-story brick building was added to the Golden Sheaf Bakery as a storage and loading facility. Architect Clinton Day, known for work in San Francisco and on early University of California buildings, designed it with Tuscan pilasters, flat-arched ground-floor portals, arched upper windows and terra cotta ornament by Gladding, McBean, including a golden sheaf motif. The bakery itself was founded in 1877 by John G. Wright and became Berkeley's first wholesale and retail bakery, supplying customers from Sacramento to San Jose and feeding refugees after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Wright family sold it in 1909. The addition later served as shops and offices, then as a garage from 1927. A side bay was bricked in during the 1950s. Its listing rests on the surviving exterior, a rare downtown brick commercial building and one of few remaining Clinton Day works.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1905)","architect_builder":"Clinton Day (architect); terra cotta by Gladding, McBean","architectural_style":"Classically inspired commercial building with Tuscan ordered pilasters","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied on the form; used as a garage since 1927. Condition listed as altered, and the wood joist flooring is deteriorated.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.819969-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000644.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000644/3113a29ab6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000644/3113a29ab6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golden_Sheaf_Bakery_(Berkeley,_CA).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golden_Sheaf_Bakery_(Berkeley,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858230","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Sheaf_Bakery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120021855"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/golden-sheaf-bakery-78000644/"}