[2] Early civic leader Francis K. Shattuck donated land for the railroad and its depot, and subsidized the initial construction.

[5] Around that time, Cal president Benjamin Ide Wheeler and other prominent Berkeley academics lobbied SP president E. H. Harriman for an improved train station to complement John Galen Howard's emerging architectural style for the nearby University of California, Berkeley.

[3] Surveying work began in June 1906; that September, SP management announced their intentions to convert their suburban lines to a frequent electric service to compete with the Key System.

[7] The station was designed by Maher & Martens of San Francisco in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Tudor Construction, and Bechtel.

[citation needed] A station and plaza renovation project began construction on August 29, 2016[9] and opened to the public on October 19, 2018.