The Berkeley Piano Club was founded in 1893 by Berkeley women. In 1912 the club built a clubhouse designed by William L. Woollett with an internationally known performance space. It was designated by the city as a Berkeley Landmark in 2005. The designation also includes the house, final home of John Galen Howard (his wife was club president from 1911–1913), in an upstairs workshop of which a trigger was designed for the atomic bomb by a Manhattan Project scientist. The landmark designation made the property eligible for state funding and a restoration was also completed in 2005.
Nicolas Slonimsky lectured at the clubhouse in 1971.
The club published a history for its centennial, The Berkeley Piano Club: One Hundred Years of Harmony by Mary F. Commanday.
References
- ^ "Berkeley Historical Plaque Project".
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "Berkeley Landmarks :: 2005 Designations".
- ^ "Bombs Fly During Heated Landmarks Meeting" by Richard Brenneman, Berkeley Daily Planet March 11, 2005. Accessed June 23, 2013.
- "Berkeley Landmarks :: 2005 Designations".
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