The Nation, December 5th, 1988
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 century and her retirement in 1951, Morgan produced nearly 800 buildings in her native California, a legacy rivaling that of her contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright. She was responsible for hundreds of houses, churches arid schools in San Francisco and its suburbs, major buildings at the University of California, Berkeley, and the elaborate Hearst estate...
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