Andrew Di Genova, AIA Architect
		Historic Homes
		Charles Keeler House Bernard Maybeck's first architectural commision in Berkeley.
			Berkeley at the Turn of the Century Source: "Berkeley Landmarks" by Susan Cerny Charles Keeler House on the lower left, c.1900. The three houses above are also designed by Maybeck, were replaced with apartment buildings in the 1960's.
			Magnificent Maybeck Source: "The Berkeley Voice" Architect Bernard Maybeck has often been called the "founding father" of an influential architectural movement that came to be known as the First Bay Tradition. Those much beloved Edwardian-era homes commonly referred to as "Berkeley Brown Shingles" were largely inspired by Maybeck's philosophy of organic design. This philosophy was laid out in a popularbook called "The Simple Home", which was written and published in 1904 by Maybeck's friend and first client, Charles Keeler. The house stands near the northeast corner of Ridge Road and Highland Place, just north of the university campus.When Maybeck first designed this house in 1894, the north Berkeley hills were almost entirely open and undeveloped, with only a few farmhouses dotting the heavily wooded slopes.