Guide to the Landscape records for the University of California, Berkeley, 1959-1969
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University Archives
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Landscape Records for the University of California, Berkeley, 1959-1969
Collection number: CU-411
University Archives, The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
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- University Archives
- The Bancroft Library
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
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- Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
- URL: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/university-archives/
- Processed by:
- The Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- Nov. 2000
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 2001 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Landscape Records for the University of California, Berkeley,
Date (inclusive): 1959-1969
Collection Number: CU-411
Creator:
Church, Thomas Dolliver
Extent:
1 box, 24 oversize folders
Repository: The
Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Thomas D Church, Landscape records for the University of California Berkeley, CU-411 Ser. [x], Fol.
[x], University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift of Thomas Church to The Bancroft Library in 1972; transferred to University Archives in March 1988
Administrative History
Thomas Church was chief landscape architect for the Berkeley Campus from September 1961 through June 1969. Church was known
for his 'user-oriented' landscaping; in addition to his Berkeley and extensive private work he also did work for the UC Santa
Cruz campus and for Stanford University.
Prior to 1961, the university had used faculty members for landscaping advice; perhaps the best known of these was John Gregg,
whom John Galen Howard was known to consult on landscaping. During the 1950s Lawrence Halprin was hired to complete a master
plan for the development of the campus, but there seems to have been a disagreement between Halprin and the university administration,
and the plan came to naught. Still the building plans set forth in the Long Range Development Plan of 1956 called for an equally
intensive analysis of the campus landscape, which Church agreed to perform.
In addition to providing landscaping for the construction projects of the 1960s, Church also devoted much of his energy to
the open spaces on campus. Areas such as Strawberry Creek became much more of a focal point under Church's plan, which sought
to maintain and even emphasize the traditional park-like atmosphere of the campus in the face of intensive building.
Scope and Content
The collection covers the period of Church's campus landscaping and includes correspondence, reports, photographs, and landscaping
plans for building projects of the 1960s as well as for the General Campus Improvement Plan being developed concurrently.
Box 1
Series 1
Scope and Content Note
Contracts and agreements, development of the master plan, and correspondence.
box 1, folder 1
Contract with the University of California, Berkeley, 1961
folder 2
Master plan agreement, 1959-1961, and vouchers
folder 3
Master plan report, 1961-1962
folder 4
Master plan, miscellaneous notes
folder 5
Correspondence and miscellany re Evans Hall project, 1963-1970
folder 6
Correspondence 1961-71. Includes his letter of resignation.
folder 7
Photographs taken during Barrows Hall construction
Oversize folders
Series 2
Physical Description: (Oversize folders)
Scope and Content Note
Drawings and plans for the various projects Church worked on and includes drawings that range from preliminary sketches for
some projects to as-built drawings for most of the projects.
oversize 1
Barrows Hall
1956-65
Physical Description: 11 pieces
oversize 2
Biochemistry Building
1964
Physical Description: 3 pieces
oversize 3
Birge Hall
1964-65
Physical Description: 8 pieces
oversize 4
Bridges: general campus improvement, step 1.
1965-67
Physical Description: 5 pieces
Scope and Content Note
Includes Pelican, Stephens and Dwinelle bridges
oversize 5
Bollards; drawing not by Church
1950, n.d.
Physical Description: 3 pieces
oversize 6
Bio-organic Laboratory (i.e., Calvin Laboratory)
1964-65
Physical Description: 2 pieces
oversize 7
Class of 1914 gift (fountain at College Avenue)
1966-68
Physical Description: 7 pieces
oversize 8
Class of 1935 gift (outdoor seminar area
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 pieces
oversize 9
Dana Street Bridge; General Campus Improvement Step 2
1964-68
Physical Description: 16 pieces
oversize 10
Davis Hall; Engineering material Laboratory
1965-69
Physical Description: 11 pieces
oversize 11
East Entrance
1963-66
Physical Description: 19 pieces
oversize 12
Earth Sciences Building
n.d.
Physical Description: 1 piece
oversize 13
Evans Hall
1964-65
Physical Description: 4 pieces
oversize 14
General Campus Improvement, Step 1:
1961
Physical Description: 8 pieces
Scope and Content Note
Includes Strawberry Creek from Dana Street to Sather Bridge, and from Stephens Hall to Faculty Club; also area between Gilman
and LeConte Halls (see also folder 15)
oversize 15
General Campus Improvement, Step 1: Gilman LeConte Halls (see also folder 14)
1965
Physical Description: 8 pieces
oversize 16
General Campus Improvement, Step 2: Strawberry Creek, and Observatory Hill
1965-66
Physical Description: 7 pieces
oversize 17
General Campus Improvement, Step 2: Faculty Glade and Pelican Building steps
1966
Physical Description: 9 pieces
oversize 18
General Campus Improvement, Step 2: Haviland Hall
1966-67
Physical Description: 9 pieces
oversize 19
General Campus Improvement, Step 4: Overall plan, Central Glade, Crocker Laboratory site, Cowell Hospital parking.
1967-68
Physical Description: 10 pieces
oversize 20
Library and Central Glade
n.d.
Physical Description: 2 pieces
oversize 21
Pelican Building-Moses Hall landscaping redevelopment (part of GCI, step 2)
1968
Physical Description: 3 pieces
oversize 22
Springer Memorial, west entrance
1962/64
Physical Description: 15 pieces
oversize 23
Storm drainage system development
1968
Physical Description: 3 pieces
oversize 24
Wurster Hall
1964-66
Physical Description: 28 pieces