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Durant Hall was then home to UC Berkeley's East Asian Library from 1951 to 2007. That library also grew too big for Durant Hall, and like the law school, was suffering from severe overcrowding by the time it moved to the new C.V. Starr East Asian Library building in 2008.
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In 1951, the law school finally moved to a newly-constructed law building in the southeastern corner of campus, which was dedicated as the new Boalt Hall. The old Boalt Hall was renamed Durant Hall in honor of the first president of the
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From 1911 to 1951, the building was the home of the UC Berkeley School of Jurisprudence, which later became the
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In 2010, after a renovation, Durant Hall reopened as the new home for the offices of the deans of the
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Durant Hall is located in Oakland, California
Durant Hall is located in California
Durant Hall is located in the United States
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
37°52′17″N 122°15′36″W / 37.871258°N 122.260128°W / 37.871258; -122.260128
82004640
Berkeley, California
John H. Boalt
John Galen Howard
Beaux-Arts style
campus of the University of California, Berkeley
School of Law
University of California Berkeley
Henry Durant
National Register of Historic Places
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science

National Register of Historic Places listings in Alameda County, California
List of Berkeley Landmarks in Berkeley, California
"National Register Information System – (#82004640)"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
Durant Hall, npgallery.nps.gov
ISBN
0-87772-375-3
"Durant Hall | Disability Access & Compliance"
"UC Berkeley, Durant Hall"

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