The Chandler Building (sometimes called the Chandler Apartments) is a historic building at the corner of Dwight Way and Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue is a street that begins, at its southernmost point, in the midst of the historic downtown district of Oakland, California, USA, and ends, at its northernmost point, at the southern edge of the University of California campus in Berkeley, California...

 in Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. It is 4 stories tall. It was built in the 1920's.

The building has received some literary fame, being featured prominently in the 2002 mystery novel The Chandler Apartments by Owen Hill, who wrote the book while living there.

It is also the former residence of Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...

, a novelist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

It is the current residence of Tom Toro, New Yorker cartoonist.

External links

• http://www.lostinthestars.com/-owen/owenhill.htm a review of Owen Hill's "The Chandler Apartments."
• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59811459614 Chandler Building facebook group of past and current residents.

Citations

The information about Jonathan Lethem comes from a current resident of the Chandler Building (circa 2006).