Wheeler Hall

Wheeler Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front of Wheeler Hall
Location:	Berkeley, California
Coordinates:	37°52′15.7″N 122°15′32.6″W
Governing body:	University of California, Berkeley
NRHP Reference#:	82004654
Added to NRHP:	March 25, 1982

Wheeler Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Home to the English department, it was named for the philologist and university president Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

The building was opened in 1917. It houses the largest lecture hall on the Berkeley campus.

The building was the site of many of the Free Speech Movement protests in the 1960s and is a focal point of the Berkeley campus. In recent history, it has been the place for many university protests and the subject of several building takeovers.

External links

• Interactive Map of Berkeley Campus