Julia Morgan


General Information


Occupation: Architect

Date of Birth: January 20, 1872

Date of Death: February 02, 1957

Birth City: San Francisco

Birth State/Province: California

Birth Country: United States

Resident City: San Francsico

Resident State/Province: California

Resident Country: United States

Archive/Repository: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and others

Sources: http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/spec_coll/morgan/bio/bio.html http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/berkeley/ceda/morgan/


Specialties


No specialties on record


Jobs


Employer: Atelier of Ecole instructor, Bernard Chaussemiche

Title: Drafter

City: Paris

State: California

Country: United States

Start Date: November 1898

Notes: Chaussemiche was Morgan's mentor


Employer: Office of John Galen Howard

Title: Architect

City: San Francisco

State: California

Country: United States

Notes: Morgan drew the elevations and designed the decorative details for the Mining Building at the University of California.


Employer: Morgan's own office

Title: Architect

City: San Francisco

State: California

Country: United States


Collaborators


No collaborators on record


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: Honorary Doctor of Laws degree

Notes: Presented from the University of California at Berkeley


Exhibitions


No exhibitions on record


Notable Projects


Title: The Hearst Greek Theatre

Description: Theatre on Berkeley Campus

City: Berkeley

Country: delete

Notes: Designed under John Galen Howard's guidance


Title: Fairmont Hotel

Description: rebuilding

City: San Francisco

Country: delete

Notes: Rebuilding of the hotel followed the earthquake and fire in San Francisco in 1906


Title: Asilomar Conference Center

Description: YWCA Building

City: Pacific Grove

Country: delete

Notes: Morgan was also commissioned to do a series of other YWCA buildings in California, Utah and Hawaii


Title: Hearst Ranch

Description: main building and guesthouses for William Hearst's ranch

City: San Simeon

Country: delete

Notes: Morgan designed the main building-Casa Grande and guest houses-A House, B House, C House, the grounds, the pools, the animal shelters and the workers camps. From this work led to other commisions from the Hearst's including Jolon, Santa Maria de Wyntoon, Babicora, the Hopi residence at the Grand Canyon, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst Memorial Women's Gymnasium at UC Berkeley


Title: Ocean House

Description: beach house

City: Santa Monica

Country: delete


Title: remodeling of the Los Angeles Examiner building

Country: delete


Education


Institution: Ecole Nationale et Sp'ciale des Beaux-Arts

Department: Architecture

Start Date: November 1898

Notes: Morgan was refused entrance into the school for two years because she was a woman


Institution: University of California

Degree: Degree in Engineering

Notes: Berkeley, California


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


Organization: American Institute of Architects

Role: Member

Start Date: January 01, 1921

Notes: until deceased


Publications By


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Publications About


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