To determine a site's national historical significance, the National Park Service sets standards for the documentation of a site's history and its historical context. These standards are set forth in the National Register for Historic Places (NRHP) program. Apart from its architectural and academical legacy, portions of the UC Berkeley campus landscape may be culturally significant, as determined using the NRHP criteria.
Ansel Adams, Sather Tower trees from Plaza, 1964,
Fiat Lux Collection, California Museum of Photography, University of California,
Riverside.
Criterion A: Associations with an event, or series of events, that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of American history.
UC Berkeley demonstrates national significance as the first federal land grant public university in the state of California; the first Agricultural Experiment Station in the state of California; and for its early collection and study of exotic botanical plant specimens.
Criterion B: Associations with the lives of people significant in our past.
UC Berkeley has a distinguished list of master landscape architects and architects whose collective work has defined the campus: Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.; William Hammond Hall; John Galen Howard; John W. Gregg; Lawrence Halprin; Garrett Eckbo; Robert N. Royston, and Thomas D. Church.
Criterion C: Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
The Classical Core at UC Berkeley retains a layered collage of three significant internationally recognized landscape design movements: the picturesque era; the beaux-arts neoclassical era; and the modern era.
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