{"nrhp_refnum":"82000962","name":"State Asylum for the Deaf,Dumb and Blind","other_names":["California Schools for the Deaf and Blind"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Dwight Way, City line, Derby and Warring Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berkeley","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.864261062000054,"lon":-122.24768676040048,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A campus of about 50 acres at the foot of the Berkeley hills in Berkeley, California, containing the California Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. It has been on this site since 1867, with the surviving buildings dating mainly from 1914 to the 1950s, designed largely by the Office of the State Architect.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the campus is a cohesive example of California's Hispanic tradition in public architecture, tying together buildings from different eras through courtyards, loggias, tile roofs and reinforced concrete. It also cites the site planning, the artworks by Sargent Claude Johnson, and the institution's long history, which began in San Francisco in 1860 and moved to Berkeley after the 1866 state legislation.","narrative":"The California Schools for the Deaf and the Blind occupy a 50-acre campus at the foot of the Berkeley hills, where the institution has operated since 1867. The site holds classrooms, dormitories, auditoria, dining halls and gymnasia, mostly built between 1914 and the 1950s from reinforced concrete. Buildings share red tile roofs, light walls and Hispanic details such as arches, miradors, quatrefoil windows, balconies and loggias. Most were designed by the Office of the State Architect, with Alfred Eichler, R.D. Murray and Charles F.B. Roeth among the named designers. Buildings of the Deaf school are arranged around courtyards linked by arcades, while the Blind school sits along Derby Street. Interior features include relief panels by sculptor Sargent Claude Johnson, commissioned by the Federal Arts Project in 1937. The campus was listed because its consistent design vocabulary and landscape planning unite buildings from several eras, and because it illustrates the state's long-running public school for deaf and blind students, founded in San Francisco in 1860.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Office of the State Architect (including Alfred Eichler, R.D. Murray, Charles F.B. Roeth, Anson Boyd)","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival / Hispanic details, with some Moderne motifs","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form lists the property as educational use and unoccupied; some art and clock tower bells have been moved to a new School for the Deaf site in Fremont.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.410876-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82000962.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000962/bcfe7c0916-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000962/bcfe7c0916-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_Asylum_for_the_Deaf,_Dumb_%26_Blind_(Berkeley,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858347","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_School_for_the_Blind","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5020939"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/state-asylum-for-the-deaf-dumb-and-blind-82000962/"}