John William Gregg (January 8, 1880,

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- 1969

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), was a 20th-century professor of

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at the

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. Gregg designed the townsites of California

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and Ballico, California as twentieth century model agriculture townships. He and

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architect William Hays, designed the original

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master concept plans for the

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's campus in the early 1920s. Gregg worked with

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director

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to move the botanical garden from its central campus location to the hills above the campus.

Education

Gregg was raised on a small ranch in rural New Hampshire. He received his B.S. from the

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Career

He started the Landscape Architecture program at Pennsylvania State College. He then followed Dr. Hunt the dean of the college to the University of California Berkeley, where he started the Landscape Architecture program. The Landscape design program was originally under the College of Agriculture, as a separate department.

Bibliography

*John Gregg, ‘John William Gregg, a Half-century Of Landscape architecture; an Interview Conducted By Suzanne B. Riess.’, 1965, Environmental Design. *John Gregg, John Gregg Collection (Berkeley, CA, 1937) .
John W. Gregg Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley

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* 1880 births 1969 deaths UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty Massachusetts Agricultural College alumni {{US-architect-stub