"New residences and apartment houses having an estimated cost of $2,869,724 today adorn the artistic hills north of the University campus which two years ago this afternoon were swept by a conflagration causing a $10,000,000 loss, the Gazette reported. Within these dwellings are furnishings far exceeding the personal property losses of the great fire. Berkeley has rehabilitated itself (in) another year there hardly will be left a trace of the terrific blow which fairly staggered the inhabitants of this college community but failed to stop its forward steps."
"The paper noted that 285 new homes had been built, along with 45 apartment buildings. Nine fraternities and sororities had rebuilt, and the first buildings of what would make the Northside into Holy Hill, the Pacific School of Religion's new campus, was under construction. Of buildings damaged by the fire, 23 had also been repaired. The paper also noted the architecture of 10, 20 and more years ago has given place to the far more artistic and attractive types of this modern day."
On Sept. 17, 1925, two years after Berkeley's devastating 1923 fire, new residences and apartment houses costing about $2,869,724 lined the university's north hills. The 1923 conflagration caused an estimated $10,000,000 loss and personal property damages. The rebuilding included roughly 285 new homes, 45 apartment buildings, nine rebuilt fraternities and sororities, and the Pacific School of Religion beginning construction on the Northside. Twenty-three fire-damaged buildings were repaired. Architectural tastes shifted toward more artistic, stucco-finished California, Mediterranean, and colonial styles, replacing most shingle-sided houses and creating a varied landscape from bungalows to mansions.
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