{"nrhp_refnum":"91001473","name":"Girton Hall","other_names":["Senior Women's Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off College Ave. next to Cowell Hospital, University of California, Berkeley campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berkeley","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.87254864800008,"lon":-122.25404566899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Other","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Girton Hall is a small wood-frame cottage-style meeting hall on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Alameda County, designed by architect Julia Morgan and built in 1911. It was moved about 60 yards downhill in the 1940s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hall is significant as an early work of Julia Morgan, one of the West Coast's notable architects, and as an example of the First San Francisco Bay Tradition. It is also significant in social history: women students built it as a senior gathering hall comparable to the men's hall, marking a step toward equal representation on campus.","narrative":"Girton Hall is a small redwood-clapboard cottage on the eastern side of the University of California, Berkeley campus, designed by Julia Morgan and built in 1911. It has a central main room with a wing on each side, a brick chimney in the middle of the front wall, a clerestory of windows, and a rear bay window opening onto a porch. Female seniors raised funds for it so that women's singing groups and clubs could meet on an equal footing with the men's hall already on campus. For more than fifty years it hosted such groups. The building was moved about sixty yards in the 1940s, and around 1971 it was remodeled for a childcare program, with a new fireplace, kitchen and office space. It is recognized as an early work by Morgan in the First San Francisco Bay Tradition and as a marker of women's place on the campus during the suffrage era.","period_of_significance":"1911-1941","architect_builder":"Morgan, Julia - Architect; Bruce, William - Builder","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman; Other: First San Francisco Bay Tradition","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as office and meeting space, with a childcare program using the hall from about 1971; moved a short distance in the 1940s and altered inside.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.778623-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91001473.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001473/11a4c6f296-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001473/11a4c6f296-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Girton_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:Girton_Hall_(Berkeley,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Morgan_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682020"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/girton-hall-91001473/"}