Cloyne Court Hotel

The Cloyne Court Hotel, often referred to simply as Cloyne, is a student housing cooperative at 2600 Ridge Road in Berkeley, California on the north side of the University of California, Berkeley campus, on Ridge Road at Leroy Avenue. It is part of the USCA co-op system. Download high resolution version (1596x1018, 390 KB)Cloyne Court Hotel as it exist today, in Berkeley California. ... Download high resolution version (1596x1018, 390 KB)Cloyne Court Hotel as it exist today, in Berkeley California. ... A housing co-operative is a legal entity that owns real estate. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... The University Students Cooperative Association or USCA is a student housing cooperative serving primarily the University of California, Berkeley but open to any student living in or near Berkeley, California. ...

The USCA is now the largest co-op in North America and Cloyne is one of the biggest cooperative houses in the country with 150 residents. Despite its size the house was entirely student-run for nearly sixty years. This changed in July 2005, when the co-op was forced to hire a live-in manager in order to renew the property lease with the University. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the...

Cloyne Court has played a small role in the Bay Area music scene. The bands Operation Ivy, The Offspring, Rancid, Green Day, and Rilo Kiley played at Cloyne before becoming well-known. The house has also been host to several lesser-known bands during its many events. It offers two separate stages and has hosted as many as a dozen bands in a single evening. The cover for Operation Ivys only LP Energy, which features their famous Dancing ska man Operation Ivy was a ska/punk band who originated from the East Bay of San Francisco. ... The Offspring is an American punk band from Orange County, California that originally formed in 1984, consisting of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin Noodles Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and Atom Willard on drums. ... Rancid is a punk band formed in 1991 in Berkeley, California, by former members of Operation Ivy, Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong. ... Green Day is a California-based pop punk/punk rock band, consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (born Michael Pritchard; bass, backing vocals), and Tré Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III; drums, backing vocals). ... Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles-based indie rock band fronted by former child actors Jenny Lewis (Troop Beverly Hills, The Wizard) and Blake Sennett (Salute Your Shorts, Boy Meets World). ...

History

Cloyne Court was named after Cloyne, the village in Ireland where George Berkeley was bishop. Cloyne (Irish: Cluain) is a small village to the south-east of the town of Midleton in eastern County Cork in Ireland. ... Bishop George Berkeley George Berkeley (British English://; Irish English: //) (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism, summed up in his dictum, Esse est percipi (To...

Cloyne was built in 1904 for $80,000 by the University Land and Improvement Company, which included several University professors, University benefactresses Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Jane K. Sather, future Regent James K. Moffit, Dr. Louis Lisser, John L. Howard, Warren Olney, Dr. Kasper Pishel, Louis Titus, John Galen Howard, the architect of the building and James M. Pierce, the later owner of the hotel. The building, described as a 'high-class, modern apartment house,' originally contained 32 suites, each with bath, that were not connected by common hallways, but rather were paired onto private stairways to the first floor public areas. Each section was separated by heavy brick firewalls with automatic fireproof doors and each suite was wired for telephone. In 1911, the music room was added to the building, directly opposite the main entrance, which hosted numerous lectures and music recitals. 1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919) was born in Franklin County, Missouri. ... John Galen Howard (May 8, 1864–July 18, 1931) was an American architect. ...

The building was one of a rare few to survive the devastating Berkeley Hills fire of 1923 which burned over 500 structures in the area north of campus.

Pierce and his family managed the hotel from its opening in 1904 until 1914, when they purchased it from the investors. The family continued operating the hotel until it was sold in 1946.

The services and hospitality at Cloyne Court were always highly complimented by the many visitors who had the pleasure of staying at the hotel. Registered compliments in the hotel guest book include:

• Cloyne Court - Silence and peace in an insane world. - Ernest Bloch, 1944
• Cloyne Court, a haven and a place where the gentle art of hospitality is made manifest to the unknown stranger as well as to the great ones of our day. - Mary Lambert, 1942
• Giving people a happy home is a divine service. - Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 1923
• I came a stranger, stayed a guest and departed a friend. - unknown

Cloyne Court was sold by the Pierce family in 1946 to the University Students' Cooperative Association for $125,000. That year, fifteen Cloyne men occupied the new co-op alongside the previous residents, whom the USCA had agreed to not displace but rather to allow to continue to live in the former residential hotel. Cloyne originally housed all men who often held dances and dined with the women of nearby Stebbins Hall and Hoyt Hall, both all-female co-ops at the time. In 1972, Cloyne Court became a co-ed house. Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American Jewish composer. ... Stebbins Hall is a student housing cooperative in Berkeley, California. ... Hoyt Hall is a student housing cooperative in Berkeley, California. ...

In 1970, the USCA was forced to sell the property to the Regents of the University of California, upon the threat of an eminent domain acquisition by the University, in exchange for a low-cost lease, most recently renewed in July 2005. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California. ... Eminent domain (US), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand), compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (Canada, South Africa) in common law legal systems is the power of the state to appropriate private property for its own use without the owners consent. ... Ongoing events • 2005 Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes • 2005 Maharashtra floods • 2005 Gujarat Flood • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ...

The building is one of fifty-six buildings in Berkeley listed in the National Register of Historic Places as well as a City of Berkeley Landmark. The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ...

References

• Bender, Richard, Director. Campus Historic Resources Inventory, Berkeley University of California Planning Office, 1978.
• Brechin, Gray. "Architectural heritage..." The Berkeley Gazette. 12 January 1977.
• Cloyne Court Collection, ms. no. 75/35 c Bancroft Library, University of California.
• City of Berkeley Landmark Application compiled by Anthony Bruce. 20 September 1982.
• National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, compiled by Charles Bucher, Jr. with revisions and editing by Susan Cerny and Lesley Emmington. 8 June 1992.

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External links

• Cloyne Court at USCA.org
• History of the Cloyne Court Hotel, from the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association
• Cloyne Court co-op history