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White plaque № 59758

Berkeley, CA, United States

BERKELEY HISTORY. SITE OF THE KELLOGG SCHOOL. 1884. An apple orchard, two houses, and a tailor shop once occupied this block. In 1879, six local businessmen and a university professor financed the purchase of part of the block near Oxford Street as the site for one of the city’s first public schools

. The building was named for the Board of Education president Martin Kellogg, the University of California’s seventh president. The wood frame Victorian-style Kellogg School had three classrooms and s

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