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John William Gregg

1880 – 1969

American architect

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Lived 1880 – 1969 (aged 88–89). John William Gregg was an American architect.

John William Gregg (January 8, 1880, New Hampshire - 1969 Berkeley), was a 20th-century professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Gregg designed the townsites of California census-designated places Delhi, California and Ballico, California as twentieth century model agriculture townships. He and University of California, Los Angeles architect William Hays, designed the original Beaux-Arts architecture master concept plans for the University of California, Davis's campus in the early 1920s. Gregg worked with University of California Botanical Garden director Thomas Harper Goodspeed to move the botanical garden from its central campus location to the hills above the campus.

Education Gregg was raised on a small ranch in rural New Hampshire. He received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Career He started the Landscape Architecture program at Pennsylvania State College. He then followed Dr. Hunt the dean of the college to the University of California Berkeley, where he started the Landscape Architecture program. The Landscape design program was originally under the College of Agriculture, as a separate department.

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Birth century
Died
1969
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Education
University of Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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University of California, Berkeley

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American architect

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John William Gregg was born on 8 January 1880.

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John William Gregg died in 1969.

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John William Gregg was an architect.

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John William Gregg was American.

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