History

Hillegass-Parker House History

A video about the Hillegass-Parker Spring 2012 cohort made by a resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mH5YsR9b0E .

Before Hillegass-Parker House was Hillegass-Parker House

From the 70s until 2005, Hillegass-Parker House (a.k.a. HiP House) was the site of Le Chateau, a large undergraduate co-op for 85 residents. After Barrington Hall closed, Le Chateau became "the black sheep" of the USCA system. During the later half of the 1990's and early 2000's, housing values rose in the southside neighborhood Le Chateau occupied, and neighbors organized to file 20 small claims court cases at once against the USCA. The USCA offered to evict everybody and install new undergraduates if the neighbors would drop the suits, but they refused. The USCA ultimately decided to meet the neighbors' request to convert the building into a graduate/re-entry co-op. After substantial renovations, the co-op reopened under the name "Hillegass-Parker House" in the Fall of 2005.

A former member wrote a term paper about the transition from Le Chateau to Hillegass-Parker House here: coop_smith07.pdf.

Source Web Articles about Le Chateau and Hillegass-Parker House

Artz, M. 2004. Neighbors Claim $110,000 in Le Chateau Damages. .

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/text/article.cfm?archiveDate=04-20-04&storyID=18687 .

———. 2005. New Life for Troubled Le Chateau. Berkeley Daily Planet, August 26.

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?storyID=22168.

BCNA. Berkeley CNA - BANA: Legal2007.

http://www.berkeleycna.org/legal.html .

Bhattacharjee, R. 2006. Friends remember Andrew Martinez. .

http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?archiveDate=05-26-06&storyID=24234 .

Bowman, M. 2004. Neighborhood Letters2007.

http://www.berkeleycna.org/letters/chateau.html .

Colburn, M. 2005. Le Chateau Co-op to Provide Graduate Student Housing, Fall 2005 : USCA Berkeley Student Co-op Housing Since 19332007.

http://www.usca.org/home/news/chateau.php .

Fain, P. 2005. Berkeley's Animal House. The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8.

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i31/31a00603.htm .

Harper, W. 2004. East Bay - News - Maison des Animaux. East Bay Express, July 14.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2004-07-14/news/maison-des-animaux/ .

Johnson, P. 2005. Pacific News Service > News > Still 'Working It Out' — A 'Chateau' Alum Reflects on the Passing of a Rowdy Berkeley Co-Op.

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=6869314d787ca85d446df55f7a077563 .

Peng, C. 2007. Chateau Neighbors Testify In First Day of Appeal Trial. May 8.

http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=18661 .

Reconfiguring Users of a Student Neighborhood: A Cybog Feminist Case Study. 2006. https://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~smithrichardj/coop_smith07.pdf (accessed November 12, 2007).

Sharrock, J. 2007. Berkeley's Big Chill: A Writer Reflects on The Closure Of Cal's Notorious Co-op. May 8.

http://www.sanfranmag.com/archives/view_story/680/ .

Shibata, M.-K. 2007. Chateau, Neighbors Deadlocked in Court: Complaints Over Noise, Filth Persist Despite Reforms. May 8.

http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=16813 .

USCA. 2005. Chateau Trial Update : USCA Berkeley Student Co-op Housing Since 19332007.

http://www.usca.org/home/news/chateau_old.php .

Whiting, S. 2005. Flew the Co-op / The quiet rebirth of a co-op on UC Berkeley's south side. San Francisco Chronicle, December 4.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/04/CMGQIF5UQ41.DTL .