Editing Sather Gate (section)

== History ==
[[File:Sather Gate under renovation 11-22-08.JPG|thumb|Sather Gate with its metalwork removed in November 2008]]
[[File:Urn-sather-gate-berkeley.jpg|thumb|Grey granite campana urn with oak and laurel leaves victor ludorum carving {{circa|1908}} on the Sather Gate at UC Berkeley]]
Designed by [[John Galen Howard]] and built by Giovanni "John" Meneghetti in the [[Neoclassical architecture|Classical Revival]] [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] style, Sather Gate was completed in 1910. Atop the gate are eight panels of bas-relief figures: four nude men representing the disciplines of law, letters, medicine, and mining, and four nude women representing the disciplines of agriculture, architecture, art, and electricity. They were sculpted by Professor [[Melvin Earl Cummings|Earl Cummings]]. From 1910 to 1977, the panels were removed due to differences with Jane Sather. By 1979 they were all reinstalled.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Sather-Gate-s-checkered-past-3264764.php |title=Sather Gate's checkered past |work=The San Francisco Chronicle |date=2008-10-22|last=Stein|first=Ken}}</ref>

Originally, the gate served as the formal southern entrance to the university campus.  The university later expanded further south of Strawberry Creek, and the gate is now well separated from [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]'s city streets by Sproul Plaza.

Between October 2008 and April 2009, Sather Gate underwent restoration that focused on its bronze and steel metal work, which had deteriorated over time. It remained open to pedestrian and vehicular traffic during the period of restoration.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/10/06_sathergate.shtml |title=Iconic Sather Gate to be restored to its former majesty |publisher=University of California |date=October 6, 2008|last=Anwar|first=Yasmin}}</ref> [[Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.]], coordinated the restoration, which received a 2010 Design Award from the California Preservation Foundation.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Architects-honored-for-various-Bay-Area-works-3177920.php | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=Architects honored for various Bay Area works | first=John | last=King | date=2010-08-17}}</ref>

=== Free Speech Movement ===
Sather Gate is part of the historic [[Sproul Plaza]], a major center for student activity and the scene of many protests during the [[Free Speech Movement]]. The gate is a notable subject of one of the most recognizable and iconic photographs of the Movement, a fall 1964 shot of students walking through it, carrying the Free Speech banner.<ref>{{cite web|first=Elizabeth|last=Stephens |url=http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/fsm_ead.html |title=Free Speech Movement Archival Collection Guides |publisher=Bancroft.berkeley.edu |access-date=2018-05-23}}</ref>