First Unitarian Church

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The First Unitarian Church in Berkeley, California is a former church building that was built in 1898. It was designed by Albert C. Schweinfurth, who made unconventional use of Shingle Style architecture, usually applied to homes, in designing a church. It was also highly unusual for a church building in several other ways, including the use of industrial-style metal sash windows, sections of redwood tree trunks as pillars, the strong horizontal emphasis, and a semicircular apse with a conical roof."Berkeley Landmarks: First Unitarian Church". Berkeleyheritage.com. 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2013-06-19. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the California State Historic Resources Survey, and is a City of Berkeley Landmark.Harvey Helfand, University of California, Berkeley (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), pp. 177–180. It has also been known as University Dance Studio and Bancroft Dance Studio for its current use. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
date from: 1898

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