Rose Walk

Historical marker location:

1407 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California

( Marker can be reached from Euclind Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1998

Bernard Maybeck, Designer and Architect; 1913. Henry Higby Gutterson, Architect, 1924-36.

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, but the western terminus of the railroad was actually in Oakland, California. The railroad made it easier and faster to travel across the country, and helped to spur California's economic growth.