ANNA HEAD SCHOOL

In the decade after her graduation, while traveling in Europe and studying in Greece, Anna Head developed a progressive philosophy of education and compelling vision for her new academy in Berkeley, originally called Miss Head's School for Girls. At age 30 she started her new school, initially located near her alma mater in a home at the corner of Dana and Channing in Berkeley, later the site of the Congregational Church. Anna Head then retained her cousin, the architect Soule Edgar Fisher, to design Channing Hall, a handsome Queen Anne building, one of the first classic Berkeley brown-shingle buildings. With funds from her mother's sale of her Oakland school, she opened the new school in the 1892-93 school year at the corner of Channing and Bowditch, and over the years she added several structures on the campus, all in the handsome brown-shingle style. Architecturally, the school is a remarkable example of the local Arts and Crafts movement in the Bay Area. The Anna Head School is on..