University Art Museum

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Alameda County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 94720
When was it listed? January 2014
Category. building
Census division. Berkeley
National Register reference number. 13001034 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1895 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering University Art Museum, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering University Art Museum, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of University Art Museum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	143
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	10
Debris and open burning	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Fireworks	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Clara Unit	ANZA

Every fire recorded in Alameda County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of University Art Museum: 13 occurrences, 8 past producers, 4 producers, 4 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Berkeley Hills	Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite
Kaiser Industries Corp	Clay	Producer
Unnamed Location	Calcium	Prospect
Tunnel Rock	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Tunnel Rock	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Asbestos	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Asbestos	Occurrence
Berkeley Hills	Lead	Unknown
Unnamed Location	Lead	Occurrence
Ada Sand and Gravel Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Alameda County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berkeley, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2017	Hail	Berkeley	$10	Pea sized hail reported by spotter. Several other reports of pea sized hail also.
December 2022	Heavy Rain	Berkeley	-	Trained spotter reported 4.45 inches of rain from 5 PM on December 30 to 5 PM on December 31.
March 2018	Hail	Berkeley	-	Pea-sized hail reported in north Berkeley via social media.
March 2018	Hail	Berkeley	-	Social media reports of another round of hail this morning in Berkeley.
April 2018	Hail	Berkeley	-	Small hail reported in Berkeley.
January 1998	Flash Flood	Berkeley	-	basement flooded

Every storm recorded in Alameda County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1895 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1915 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Oakland West quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
College Women's Club	under 500 feet	1982
Hearst Gymnasium for Women	under 500 feet	1982
Anna Head School for Girls	0.2 miles	1980
Faculty Club	0.2 miles	1982
First Church of Christ, Scientist	0.2 miles	1977
Senior Hall	0.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001034 in Record Group 79.
Alameda County	All 160 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.