{"nrhp_refnum":"82002161","name":"Haviland Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"University of California Campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berkeley","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.87367487900008,"lon":-122.26111785599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Haviland Hall is a four-story reinforced concrete and stucco academic building on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Alameda County, California. It was completed in 1924 and designed by John Galen Howard.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building matters mainly for its role in Howard's Beaux Arts plan for the university, through both its placement and its design. It was built in Howard's last year as supervising architect and used reinforced concrete rather than the more expensive granite of most earlier buildings. Its symmetry, classical ornament and matching interior and exterior motifs express the ideals of the campus founders and planners.","narrative":"Haviland Hall is an academic building on the University of California campus at Berkeley, completed in 1924 to designs by John Galen Howard. Funded by a $250,000 gift from a San Francisco businessman in honor of his wife, Hannah H. Haviland, it first housed the School of Education and the Lange Library of Education. It is built of reinforced concrete and stucco, with a four-story central block, two three-story wings and red tile roofs. Classical ornament includes Corinthian entablatures, relief panels of open books and festoons, and a balcony with elaborate grillwork. Inside are a fourth-floor lecture hall lit by a skylight and a paneled reading room with molded stucco ceilings. The building matters chiefly as part of Howard's Beaux Arts plan for the campus, sitting north of the central axis on a rise above Strawberry Creek and echoing California Hall to the south. It was built in Howard's last year as supervising architect, and it has seen little alteration. Since 1963 it has housed the School of Social Welfare.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"John Galen Howard","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition, largely unaltered; used by the School of Social Welfare since the School of Education moved in 1963.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.962767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002161.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002161/59ae2686b3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002161/59ae2686b3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haviland_Hall_(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:Haviland_Hall_(Berkeley,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858242","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128107220"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/haviland-hall-82002161/"}