This is one of my favorite places. Believe it or not this is Berkeley California and not Normandy France. This was originally an apartment complex designed by William Raymond Yelland for Col. Jack Thornburg (A Student at U.C. Berkeley) after World War i.
The original concept would have been to have had a layer of retail shoppes and restaurants beneath this complex. The city did not permit mixed use developement at that time and that portion of this was scrapped. I think that it would have been a wonderful place to stroll and meander throughout and dine in a street cafe.
This complex has gone condominium. I hope to represent one of these someday. I also wouldn't mind picking up a unit just for bragging rights.
Enjoy the pictures. Give comments please!
Sharon,
The area is now locked in with regular looking aparments built on the protion of the property that would have had the mixed use.
It's interesting to note that on the other side of the creek is Brittany Village complex.
That block of Berkeley (Just 1/2 block north of the campus) is like a little 1920s EPCOT center
Hi
We actually had a listing of one of them years ago... it was fun to sell.. but the wall from the front steps was so low (and I'm 6'3") I stepped carefully every time I walked into the unit.
Ira