{"nrhp_refnum":"82004650","name":"Sather Tower","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Oxford St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berkeley","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.87207658900007,"lon":-122.25777974399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sather Tower, also called the Campanile, is a tower on the central campus of the University of California in Berkeley, designed by architect John Galen Howard and dated 1914. It is part of a group of campus resources and sits with the Esplanade along Campanile Way.","why_significant":"The available text mostly describes the wider group of campus resources and gives no tower-specific significance statement. The group is said to define the formal, turn-of-the-century, Neo-Classic concept of the university. A federal reviewer found the tower eligible under criteria A, B and C.","narrative":"Sather Tower, known as the Campanile, rises on the central campus of the University of California in Berkeley. John Galen Howard designed it, and the nomination dates it to 1914. It is listed with the Esplanade as part of the Campanile Way group, which also includes South Hall, Wheeler Hall, Durant Hall, Doe Memorial Library and California Hall. The nomination describes the campus structures as Neo-Classic in style, and notes that their location and orientation along major and minor axes express the formal, turn-of-the-century concept of the university. It says that although a few structures have been altered inside or out, their architectural integrity is high. The tower was nominated as one of seventeen resources in a multiple resource submission for the campus. A federal reviewer recommended acceptance under criteria A, B and C, and the listing was accepted in March 1982. The surviving text has no detailed description of the tower itself.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Galen Howard","architectural_style":"Neo-Classic (as described for the group of campus resources)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.499706-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82004650.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004650/7ea26e6b0d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004650/7ea26e6b0d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Tristan Harward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CampanileMtTamalpiasSunset-original.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tristan Harward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CampanileMtTamalpiasSunset-original.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857348","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357019"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/sather-tower-82004650/"}