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Location: Berkeley High School - Berkeley CA

Berkeley High School: Community Theater – Berkeley CA

Berkeley Little Theater

Art Deco-style building with reinforced concrete, finished in stucco. The Community Theater was started with PWA funds, but not finished until after WWII.

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Berkeley High School: Shop and Science Buildings – Berkeley CA

Berkeley High School Science Building

The shop and science buildings were New Deal additions to Berkeley High School.  They were most likely paid for by the Public Works Administration (PWA), but this needs to be confirmed. “These buildings are fine examples of the Art Deco… read more

Project type: Education and Health, Schools
Agency: Public Works Administration (PWA)

Berkeley High School: Howard Bas Reliefs – Berkeley CA

Berkeley High School Relief of the Goddess Cybele

These relief panels are on the Florence Schwimley Theater at Berkeley High School. The large bas relief was designed by Robert Howard, son of architect John Galen Howard.

Project type: Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Arts Project (FAP)

Berkeley High School: Building H Stone Relief – Berkeley CA

"St. George and the Dragon"

“St. George and the Dragon” (1940) is on the west side of Berkeley High School, on building H. It is a cast stone relief located on the exterior of the building at Martin Luther King Jr. Way at Allston Way…. read more

Project type: Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
Agency: Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Berkeley High School Bas Reliefs – Berkeley CA

Symbols and Allegorical Figures

Berkeley High School is adorned with various cast stone bas reliefs of symbolic and allegorical figures by Robert Howard, son of architect John Galen Howard.

Project type: Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
Agency: Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Berkeley High School: Classroom, Shop, and Laboratory Scenes Bas Relief – Berkeley CA

Classroom, Shop, and Laboratory Scenes

Medium: cast stone Size: Various sizes

Project type: Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
Agency: Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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