Piedmont Avenue (Berkeley)

Piedmont Avenue
Piedmont Avenue, 1915
Location	Piedmont Ave. between Gayley Rd. and Dwight Way
Coordinates	37°52′04″N 122°15′07″W / 37.867789°N 122.251889°W / 37.867789; -122.251889
Built	1865
Architect	Frederick Law Olmsted
California Historical Landmark
Official name	Piedmont Way[1]
Reference no.	986[1]
Berkeley Landmark
Official name	Piedmont Way
Designated	February 22, 1990
Reference no.	130
Location in Berkeley/the East Bay

Piedmont Avenue is a street in the city of Berkeley, California. Originally known as Piedmont Way, is the major street through the University of California, Berkeley's fraternity and sorority area. The street was originally named Piedmont Way.

Piedmont Way was conceived in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted, America's foremost landscape architect. As the centerpiece of a gracious residential community close beside the College of California, Olmsted envisioned a roadway that would follow the natural contours of the land and be sheltered from sun and wind by "an overarching bowery of foliage." This curvilinear, tree-lined parkway was Olmsted's first residential street design. It has served as the model for similar parkways across the US.

This original portion, now located between Gayley Road and Dwight Way, is designated as a Berkeley Landmark and California Historical Landmark.^[1][2]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, California.

• Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association
• Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. CA-2, "Piedmont Way & the Berkeley Property Tract, East of College Avenue between Dwight Way & U.C. Memorial Stadium, Berkeley, Alameda County, CA", 42 photos, 5 measured drawings, 13 data pages, 6 photo caption pages