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Julia Morgan: Julia Morgan House
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Among Julia Morgan's most important early projects as an independent architect were designs (begun in 1904) for several buildings on the campus of Mills College, a four-year institution for women in Oakland, California. Following the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Morgan was able to obtain a large number of commissions in the Bay Area, many of them for private homes. Like Maybeck, Morgan took an eclectic approach to design and refused to limit herself to the popular, conservative, turn-of-the-century revival styles sweeping the country and dominating the domestic market. The house that best exemplifies this attitude is ... her most famous work "La Casa Grande," William Randolph Hearst's home at San Simeon, California (begun in 1919), one of several commissions executed for the Hearst family. It is actually a complex of domestic buildings, eclectic in style, made comprehensible through Beaux-Arts organization. The commission was a difficult one as Hearst constantly changed his mind about details relating to the design; yet Morgan's patience and resolve carried her through the project.
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Julia Morgan and Ira Hoover tapped Alameda builders Delanoy and Randlett to build the Bay Street Tudor Revival residence. In 1901 the company built this Classical Revival building currently home to Tomatina as a one-story building. A second story was added in 1902 and a rear annex in 1904. The annex housed the Park Theater, the city’s first Vaudeville and movie theater.
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Five years later, the Julia Morgan House and Gardens on Sacramento’s T Street stands as a testament to the dedication of donors, more than 100 students and alumni, and a determined group of campus employees. Its $1.7 million renovation, paid for through private contributions, was completed last summer. Since then, the main home and gardens have become a prized location for University and public special events. The west wing of the mansion houses the Life Center, a program dedicated to senior wellness.
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Members John and Betty Moulds arranged a photographic open house to the Julia Morgan House on T Street in Sacramento. Julia Morgan was the first woman architect licensed in California. During her 50 year career, she designed and built over 700 buildings including the famous Hearst Castle in San Simeon. This classical beaux-arts style house was built in the early 1920's and is the only residential project of hers in Sacramento. The house was donated to the CSUS Foundation in 1966 by the Sacramento philanthropist Charles M. Goethe. Betty Moulds, CSUS Vice President and Chief of Staff, oversaw a $1.7 million restoration of the building which reopened last September. The house is currently used for a variety of public and private functions.
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Morgan closed her office in the Merchants Exchange Building in 1951 requesting that her files and blueprints be destroyed, on the grounds that her clients had their own copies. She would never have anticipated that 40 years later a lawsuit would develop as a result of the lack of documentation that she designed a particular house in Oakland. A suit was filed... and an initial summary judgment in favor of the sellers and agents was overturned at the Court of Appeal in 1994, significantly extending the State’s real estate case law. Brokers are even more careful now than they were before in representing that ‘famous’ architects designed or remodeled properties they are marketing!
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For Sac State design professor Lee Anderson, it was a startling discovery: The University owned a home designed by celebrated architect Julia Morgan. In fact, various Sac State programs had been housed in the 6,000 square-foot home since 1966, when Sacramento philanthropist Charles M. Goethe donated it to the University.
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