East Bay Home and Gardens

East Bay: Then and Now—Zimri Brewer Heywood: Separating Fact From Myth

By Daniella Thompson
Thursday September 04, 2008
1808 Fifth St., an elegant Italianate Victorian built in 1878 for Zimri Heywood’s son Charles.
As Planet Berkeley hurtles away from its past, the figures who dominated its early days, having accumulated a comet-like tail of stories and quasi-histories, take on the burnish of legend. Enshrined in books and articles, these stories have been repeated long enough to be taken for fact. -more-

About the House: Walking on a Roof

By Matt Cantor
Thursday September 04, 2008
Now, straight off, I want to say that climbing ladders and walking on roofs is not for everyone. In fact, it’s not for me. I have to do it for my job and, frankly, I hate it. Well, not all the time, but there are days when I dread it and I’ll tell you some stories of occasions that either validated my dread or exacerbated it. -more-