[2] In 1908, the Hillside Club and the City of Berkeley leased the land from the People’s Water Company (owners of the nearby Berryman Reserve).

[3] Around 1910, the first plans for a path were designed by city engineer J.J. Jessup, but these were rejected by the Hillside Club.

[3] The Hillside Club formed a committee and fundraised local residents for the path project, and they convinced Bernard Maybeck donated his design services.

[3] The Rose Walk was completed in July 1913, and is set on a steep hillside.

[3] The houses surrounding the path are designed by many notable early 19th-century architects including Maybeck, John Galen Howard, Julia Morgan, and after 1924 by Henry Higby Gutterson.