[1] In 1912 the club built a clubhouse designed by William L. Woollett with an internationally known performance space.
[3] The designation also includes the house, final home of John Galen Howard (his wife was club president from 1911–1913),[1] in an upstairs workshop of which a trigger was designed for the atomic bomb by a Manhattan Project scientist.
[4] The landmark designation made the property eligible for state funding and a restoration was also completed in 2005.
[4] Nicolas Slonimsky lectured at the clubhouse in 1971.
[5] The club published a history for its centennial, The Berkeley Piano Club: One Hundred Years of Harmony by Mary F. Commanday.