Elmwood

The Elmwood District is a neighborhood of the City of Berkeley, California. It is primarily residential, with a small commercial area. The district does not have set lines of demarcation, but is focused around College and Ashby Avenues. The most extreme definitions of the district's boundaries do not extend past Telegraph Avenue to the west, Dwight Way to the north, or the Oakland city limit to the south. Elmwood was a streetcar suburb that was developed in the 1900's housing boom following the 1906 earthquake. It has a small commercial corridor on College avenue centered on the intersection of Ashby and College Avenues, that spans on College Avenue about one to two blocks in each direction. The commercial corridor consists of small...