The Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA) is a

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emer ...

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whose mission is to "promote, through

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, an understanding and appreciation for Berkeley’s history, and to encourage the preservation of its

historic building This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many i ...

s." Incorporated on 9 December 1974, the organization has been active since 1971. The organization is headquartered at the McCreary-Greer house, gifted to the association by Ruth Alice Greer in 1986.

References

External links

Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association website

BAHA News
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