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Berkeleyside: Group asks Cal to preserve century-old buildings

Wed, January 5, 2022

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/12/22/preserving-anna-head-school-buil...

Leaky in the rains, singed by recent fires, and weak from a century of inconsistent maintenance, Berkeley’s former Anna Head School – a cluster of traditional brown-shingle buildings across the street from People’s Park – is the target of a plea for preservation....The site, on Bowditch Street at Channing Way, is now owned by the university. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places and landmarked by the city.  A group of Anna Head staff, former staff, alumna, and general fans is spearheading an effort to preserve several buildings of the original “Miss Head’s School for Girls,” which opened in 1892....“We have recently become aware and are concerned that much of the former Anna Head School complex, now part of UC Berkeley, is in great disrepair and in danger of being replaced,” reads a petition to the school that the group has been circulating. “We believe the Anna Head School holds a significant place in the history of UC Berkeley and that all the buildings need to be saved.” 

 

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