Christian M. Teigland, Builder, 1940

This elegant commercial building, featuring two projecting storefront bays, copper bay hoods, pressed-copper storefront friezes, and steel-sash multi-pane windows, was the famed architect’s last Berkeley project. It was built for Frederick Chester Turner (1865–1955), a former Oakland City Engineer and Councilmember whose wife, Elsie Bloomfield Lee (1867–1937), was Julia Morgan’s sorority sister. Over several decades, Morgan designed various projects for the Turners, including a medical office building and a laboratory on this block (demolished). Two legendary long-term tenants in this building were the George J. Good men’s haberdashery, in the western storefront, and the Black Sheep Restaurant, located behind an interior courtyard accessed through a central archway between the storefronts.