Charles W. Woodworth House

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK 
designated in 1993  

Charles W. Woodworth House 
1905

Entomologist, naturalist, physicist, and inventor Charles W. Woodworth designed
and built this all-redwood house in the Bay Region style. The three-level, seven-
bedroom home has a brown shingle exterior, clinker brick fireplaces, and leaded
glass windows. The entrance and main floor were designed for Mrs. Woodworth
who used a wheelchair.

Woodworth, a professor of entomology, helped develop the University of California’s
College of Agriculture and the City of Berkeley’s first public library. A world
traveler, he once spent three years in China organizing mosquito abatement efforts.
He had designed and was assembling a powerful telescope in his backyard
when he died in 1940.

Berkeley Historical Plaque Project 
2000