Julia Morgan (1872-1957), California's first licensed female architect, designed both institutional buildings and private homes in the San Francisco area. She preferred to use indigenous materials and carefully designed for often topographically...

American Architect 1872–1957 Julia Morgan, America's first prominent women architect, was the second of five children born to Charles and Parmelee Morgan on January 20, 1872, in San Francisco, California. Morgan pursued an interest in...

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IJ JULIA MORGAN, ARCH]]-ECT. By Sara Holmes Boutelle. Abbeville Press. 271 pp. $55 . Julia Morgan is by current reckoning the most prolific woman architect in history, yet the details of her life have remained a mystery. Between the turn of the...

Julia Morgan died suddenly on November 24, 2001. Julia worked as a health visitor in Hailsham, east Sussex from 1979 to 1994. She trained as a nurse and midwife at University College Hospital, London. A brief sojourn running a trekking centre in Shropshire, her...

Legend has it that Italian opera star Enrico Caruso rode out the 1906 earthquake in the Palace Hotel, finally running into the rubble-filled street wearing only a towel to declare, "I will never set foot in San Francisco again!''The shaken Caruso walked up to the...