Church of the Good Shepherd

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK

designated in 1980

CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD

Charles L. Bugbee, Architect, 1878

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

This is Berkeley’s oldest remaining church building and the oldest church

in the East Bay still in continuous use by its founding congregation. The

one-story Victorian Gothic-style building was built here on what was

Bristol Street, before it was renamed Hearst Avenue. The building is

distinguished by vertical board-and-batten siding, a 75-foot bell tower,

and pointed-arch stained glass windows. The church’s thousand-

pound Blymer bell was used as a city fire alarm from 1882 until

the advent of electricity in 1894.

Berkeley Historical Plaque Project

2000