Wheeler Hall

Wheeler Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Berkeley Landmark
Front of Wheeler Hall
37°52′15.7″N 122°15′32.6″W / 37.871028°N 122.259056°W / 37.871028; -122.259056
NRHP reference No.	82004654
BERKL No.	163
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 25, 1982
Designated BERKL	January 13, 1986[1]

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 as well as the university's College Writing Programs department, it was named for the philologist and university president Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

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

External links

AcademicsAthletics

Programs	Golden Bears Baseball Men's basketball Women's basketball Football Rugby Softball Volleyball
Rivals	Stanford Big Game UCLA Rivalry
Culture	Oski "The Play"

Campus

Academic buildings	Bancroft Library California Hall Campbell Hall Doe Memorial Library Dwinelle Hall Etcheverry Hall Evans Hall Gilman Hall Hearst Memorial Mining Building Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation LeConte Hall Leuschner Observatory Moffitt Library South Hall Wheeler Hall
Landmarks	Berkeley Art Museum Botanical Garden and Julia Morgan Hall Lawrence Hall of Science Sather Gate Sather Tower Sproul Plaza
Student activities	Hearst Greek Theatre Memorial Stadium Edwards Stadium Senior Hall Zellerbach Hall Haas Pavilion Tightwad Hill Evans Diamond
Residential	Bowles Hall International House Stern Hall Student housing University House

ResearchOrganizationsRelated articles