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Tupper & Reed Building

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1984 TUPPER & REED BUILDING William Raymond Yelland, Architect 1925  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places John Tupper and Lawrence Reed...

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK 
designated in 1984

TUPPER & REED BUILDING 
William Raymond Yelland, Architect
1925 

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

John Tupper and Lawrence Reed constructed this building for their music store,
which they had established in Berkeley in 1906. University of California art
Professor Eugen Neuhaus complimented them as businessmen whose commissioned
design rose above "the dreadful boredom of the commonplace that so often makes
of architecture a stupid business and not a stimulating art!" 

Architect W.R. Yelland (1891-1966), a UC graduate, designed many "storybook" 
structures. This building features clinker bricks, wood beam ceilings, slate
roofs, balconies, fanciful decorations, and a monumental fireplace. The
iron cutout on the chimney top announced the Sign of the Piper
Restaurant, once located upstairs. Following a 1959 fire Tupper
and Reed moved next door.

Berkeley Historical Plaque Project 
2003

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