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Nice Day in Berkeley Draws a Thousand Tourers to BAHA, Natives Events

By Steven Finacom
Tuesday May 04, 2010 - 07:10:00 PM
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Historian Betty Marvin, in the persona of Julia Morgan, visited the houses on the BAHA Tour answering questions about her work. Here she discusses the 1905 Kofoid House, with copies of her architectural drawings on hand.
By Steven Finacom
Historian Betty Marvin, in the persona of Julia Morgan, visited the houses on the BAHA Tour answering questions about her work. Here she discusses the 1905 Kofoid House, with copies of her architectural drawings on hand.
A Hobbit-like two-story cottage was a surprise in a splendid Berkeley garden on the BAHA tour that also featured a chain of three ponds and lush tropic plantings behind an elegant brown shingle.
Steven Finacom
A Hobbit-like two-story cottage was a surprise in a splendid Berkeley garden on the BAHA tour that also featured a chain of three ponds and lush tropic plantings behind an elegant brown shingle.
A backyard featuring a multi-chambered chicken coop, live oak tree house, buckeye tree and native and food plantings seemed a favorite on the garden tour.
Steven Finacom
A backyard featuring a multi-chambered chicken coop, live oak tree house, buckeye tree and native and food plantings seemed a favorite on the garden tour.

Hundreds of Berkeleyans and visitors to town turned out in picture-perfect spring weather on Sunday, May 2, 2010 to attend two tours. 

At least 1,000 paying guests and volunteers thronged the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA) annual house tour featured 8 properties designed by Julia Morgan.  

The self-guided walking tour included chamber music, a magnificent mansion in the Claremont, the house of an early UC professor largely unchanged from its 1905 character, and a hidden gem of a wood timbered garage. 

Hundreds more went on the “Bringing Back the Natives” garden tour that extended throughout the East Bay and included several properties in Berkeley, from the San Pablo Avenue flatlands to the crest of the hills. 

Some managed to squeeze in parts of both tours, with the Natives excursion starting three hours before the BAHA tour.