The College Women's Club was a

women's club The woman's club movement was a social movement that took place throughout the United States that established the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform public policy. While women's organizations had always been a par ...

founded in 1920 based in

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. It organized Berkeley's first cooperative day nursery and established scholarships.

The building

The College Women's Club building was built by Walter T. Steilberg in 1928 in the

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style. The College Women's Club sold the building and it was turned into a rooming house and a sorority. The building was restored in the early 1990s and then became the Berkeley Hotel. The building, now the Berkeley Hotel, was designated a Berkeley Landmark by the city in 1979 and was listed on the

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in 1982.

References

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