South Hall (UC Berkeley)

Infobox_nrhp | name =South Hall
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caption = Front of South Hall
location= Berkeley, California
lat_degrees = 37 | lat_minutes = 52 | lat_seconds = 16.78 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 122 | long_minutes = 15 | long_seconds = 30.59 | long_direction = W
area =
built = 1873
architect = Farquharson & Kenitzer
architecture = Second Empire
governing_body = Private
added = March 25 1982
mpsub = Berkeley, University of California MRA
refnum=82004651 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2006-03-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

South Hall, built in 1873, is the oldest building on the University of California, Berkeley campus and the only remaining building of the original campus. South Hall was originally the counterpart of North Hall, which no longer exists, but was located where the Bancroft Library currently stands.

The first physics laboratory in the United States was hosted in South Hall in 1879. It also has been home to the College of Agriculture, a business school, and a temporary museum for the state geological survey. It currently houses the UC Berkeley School of Information.

There is a myth that the rooftop scene of "Mary Poppins" was filmed here, though this is not true.

Campus tour guides often point out a small stone bear in the architecture of South Hall, above the entrance, in the third circle from the left, claiming it is the smallest bear statue on campus.

The four-story building is located southwest of Sather Tower.

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*cite web | url=http://www.berkeley.edu/tour/map/3dmap.html | title=University of California interactive map | publisher=University of California, Berkeley | accessdate=2007-03-27