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BAHA’s Spring Tour will focus on villas of Arlington Heights

March 17, 2011 12:19 pm by Tracey Taylor

An Arlington Heights home. Photo courtesy BAHA.

The Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association‘s annual Spring Tour, which takes place on Sunday May 8, will this year be devoted to the villas of the Arlington Heights neighborhood in north Berkeley.

Always a popular event for architecture enthusiasts, the tour will include homes designed by architects including Bernard Maybeck, Edwin Lewis Snyder, Walter H. Ratcliff, Jr., John Hudson Thomas, Sidney & Noble Newsom, Henry H. Gutterson, Joseph M. Walker, and Rowland & Rowland.

The hilly neighborhood east of Arlington Avenue was designed by developer John Hopkins Spring as one of Berkeley’s early 20th-century garden suburbs. As BAHA writes: “Tree-shaded streets are lined with picturesque period-revival houses reminiscent of Italian villas, Norman country houses, Tudor manors, and beguiling ‘storybook’ cottages.”

Tickets for the Tour, which runs from 1pm-5pm on May 8, can be bought on the BAHA website.

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  • Sharkey

    I can’t tell from their page — Will the Spring Hill Mansion be on the tour?

  • todd

    I really wish they would spend there efforts on this:
    http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/kenney_cottage.html
    It has been sitting in my neighborhood for over 6 years.

  • Sharkey

    I see Kenney Cottage all the time — Is it even salvageable any more? Its been sitting there on University rotting away and attracting rats and riff-raff for years now.