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Green plaque № 59704

Berkeley, CA, United States

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1978. GOLDEN SHEAF BAKERY ANNEX. Clinton Day, Architect, 1905. Jim Novosel, Architect, 2000. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1877, English immigrant John G. Wright founded the Golden Sheaf, Berkeley’s first wholesale/retail bakery. The o

riginal bakery, with a public dining room, stood around the corner on Shattuck Avenue. Bakers lived in an on-site dormitory and university students boarded in rooms upstairs. The business grew into th

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