Moses Hall, formerly known as Eshelman Hall, is a historic building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. It was built in 1931, and designed in the Tudor Revival and

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styles by architect

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. It was first named for

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, and it was renamed for Bernard Moses in 1963. The building houses the

Institute of Governmental Studies The Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) is an interdisciplinary organized research unit at UC Berkeley, located in Moses Hall. It was founded in 1919 as the Bureau of Public Administration. IGS and its affiliated centers spearhead and promote r ...

on the first floor, and the Howison Philosophy Library on the third floor. In 2023, Bernard Moses' name was removed from the building due to his racist and colonialist beliefs which were found in many of his writings.

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