Doe Memorial Library Map

The Doe Memorial Library is the main library of the University of California, Berkeley Library System. The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who in 1904 bequeathed funds for its construction. It is located near the center of the Berkeley campus, facing Memorial Glade, and is adjacent to and physically connected with the Bancroft Library. In 1900, Émile Bénard won an architectural competition for the design of the library, and the Neoclassical-style building was completed in 1911. The Doe Library building is the gateway to the underground Gardner (Main) Stacks, named in honor of David P. Gardner, the 15th President of the University of California.

Doe Memorial Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Berkeley Landmark No. 148
Doe Library from Memorial Glade
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Location	University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California
Built	1911
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	University of California, Berkeley MRA
NRHP reference No.	82004639
BERKL No.	148
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 25, 1982
Designated BERKL	February 25, 1991[1]

The library is home to the Mark Twain Papers, an extensive collection of the private manuscripts, sketches, essays, poems, notes, photographs and letters of Samuel Clemens’ works as Twain.^[2] At the library's entrance is a statue of Clemens holding a copy of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, sculpted by Gary Lee Price.^[3] The statue is commonly mistaken for Albert Einstein, with whom Twain shared a likeness.