Guidebook
NO. 791 ORIGINAL SITE OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY - In 1860 Hubert Howe Bancroft began to collect the wealth of material which was to result in the writing of his monumental history of western North America. His library was located here in 1881, in 1905 it was purchased by the University of California and moved the following year to Berkeley.
Location
1538 Valencia St, San Francisco
Open Map
NO. 791 ORIGINAL SITE OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY - Marker
NO. 791 ORIGINAL SITE OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY - Marker
NO. 791 ORIGINAL SITE OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY - State Plaque