Allanoke Manor

Allanoke Manor was designed by Ernest Coxhead, and built in 1903, completed in 1904. In the Fall of 1904, it was the site of "a series of cello and piano recitals performed by Frederick Stickney Gutterson and his wife, Minnie Marie." In the late 1980s, the university was offered but declined to purchase the estate. Allanoke was then acquired by Frederick M. Binkley (1924–2006) and his wife Marian Frances (1924–2017), who restored Allanoke to single-family use. including that "this name appears on the gate-post of the carriage house at 2533 Ridge Road." Thompson authored an article on the website of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association that contains photographs of the "Allanoke" spelling on the carriage house gate-post, as well as newspaper notices of the 1904 recitals, and Mrs. Freeman's will from 21 Sept 1938. ==Notable residents==

Allanoke was the home of Robert Sibley and Carol Sibley. Robert Sibley (1881–1958), a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, who was an executive manager of the California Alumni Association, as well as director and president of the East Bay Regional Park District (1948–1958). His wife Carol Sibley (1902–1986) was a prominent local civic activist who played a pivotal role in Berkeley's school desegregation in the 1960s. ==References==