Berkeley City Club

Berkeley women paid for all of it. Members of the city's civic and philanthropic groups founded the club in 1927, raised the money through a membership drive and two mortgage bonds secured by clubwomen, and hired Julia Morgan, California's first licensed woman architect. The six-story clubhouse and residence opened in 1930 with more than 4,000 members. For three decades it housed and served women only. Men were admitted in 1962, and it now takes hotel guests as well. Morgan's own plate, cast with her name and 1929, sits below the state bronze.

What the plaque says

Berkeley City Club The Berkeley City Club, organized in 1927, was one of the area's earliest attempts by women to contribute to social, civic and cultural progress. The building, constructed in 1929, is one of the outstanding works of noted California architect Julia Morgan, whose successful interpretation of Moorish and Gothic elements in this monumental structure created a major landmark of California design. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 908 Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Berkeley City Club, October 6, 1977. This property has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior 1977

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Woods National Monument — 17 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Muir Beach Overlook — 18 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.

More markers nearby

• University of California, Berkeley Campus — 0.4 mi
• Piedmont Way — 0.6 mi
• Site of Shell Mound — 2.8 mi
• Camino of Rancho San Antonio — 3.0 mi