Wheeler Hall

Wheeler Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California in the Classical Revival style. Home to the English department, it was named for the philologist and university president Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

Wheeler Hall
Berkeley Landmark
Front of Wheeler Hall
LocationBerkeley, California
Coordinates37°52′15.7″N 122°15′32.6″W
NRHP reference No.82004654
BERKL No.99? or 100?
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 25, 1982
Designated BERKLJanuary 13, 1986[1]

The building was opened in 1917.[2] It houses the largest lecture hall on the Berkeley campus, Wheeler Auditorium.

On February 29, 1940, UC Berkeley professor Ernest O. Lawrence received the Nobel Prize in Physics in Wheeler Auditorium from Carl Wallerstedt, Consul General from Sweden, due to the danger of crossing the Atlantic during World War II. The building was the site of many of the Free Speech Movement protests in the 1960s and is a focal point of the Berkeley campus. In the 2010s, it has been the place for many university protests and several building takeovers.

Footnotes
  1. "Berkeley Landmarks". Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  2. University of California chronicle. XIX. University of California Press. 1917. p. 75.


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