The document provides a biography of Julia Morgan, the first female licensed architect in California. It details her background growing up in Oakland, California, her education receiving a civil engineering degree from UC Berkeley and studying architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Morgan had a successful 49-year career designing over 700 structures throughout California, including Hearst Castle. She worked in different architectural styles, was known as a client-focused architect, and was considered highly skilled and accomplished despite being a woman in the field.

1. Bio
•Dedication
•Fortitude
• Perseverance
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2.  Born January 20, 1872 in San
Francisco, California, her
father, Charles, was a mining
engineer who married into wealth.
Age 8
 Her mother, Eliza Parmelee, was an
independent, capable role model who
appreciated the arts and education.
 The 2nd of 5 children , Julia was
College
raised in a spacious, ornate
Grad Victorian-era “Stick-Eastlake” styled
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3.  Julia Morgan was the first woman graduate
in the University of California's Civil
Engineering program
El Camponil, Mills
College, Oakland, Burke School Elevation
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“California Girl Wins High Honor” reported
the San Francisco Examiner in 1898. Indeed,
Julia was the first woman in history to study
architecture at Paris’ Ecole Des Beaux-Arts.
The accomplishment was akin to walking on Julia Morgan at Notre
the moon today.”- c. Jeffery A. Mitchell, all Dame, Paris, c. 1897.
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4. Exceeding the output of
her contemporary, Frank
Lloyd Wright, during her
49-year career as an
architect, Julia Morgan
designed more than 700
homes, churches, office
buildings, hospitals, stores
, and educational
buildings, including Hearst
Castle at San
Simeon, California. Many
of her projects are
Julia opened her firm in San Francisco in
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historical landmarks today.
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the spring of 1904. Her first client was
Phoebe Hearst.

5. Known as a "client's architect," she
seemed to enjoy the intense exchange
of design ideas with renowned client
William Randolph Hearst…
“She was far more
accomplished in the area
of building technology
than any of the men I have
known.”
-Walter Steilberg, architect
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6. http://lib.calpoly.edu/specialcollections/architecture/juliamorg
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From L’ Ecole des Beaux-
Arts Ornate Neo-  To the fresh Arts & Crafts
Classicism: Movement in California:
St. John’s Presbyterian Church &
Tara Sunday School, Berkeley, 1908-
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rendering

7. The Entrance Fountain at Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, built
1927.
“Her buildings really have a timeless quality; she created
structures in which people continually experience a sense of well-
being, even a century or so after they were built.”
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8. Summary Center for the Arts
Slide 1: Introduction to Bio of Julia Morgan, architect; b. January 20, 1872 – d. February 2, 1957.
Slide 2: Childhood background in Oakland, California
Slide 3: Education in Berkeley and Paris
Slide 4: First licensed female architect in California
Slide 5: Picture and info of Julia with client W.R. Hearst
Slide 6: Explain her eclectic training in two schools of thought
Slide 7: Image of fountain at San Simeon, with quote from an architect.
Stenciled ceiling
panels, Berkeley
Slide 8: Summary of Slide Presentation.
Women’s City
Club, 1929-30
Slide 9: References and bibliography of book and web sources.
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9. References
1. Mark A. Wilson. Julia Morgan, Architect of Beauty. Gibbs
Smith Publisher, 2007.
2. Sara Holmes Boutelle. Julia Morgan Architect. Abbeville
Press Publishers, New York and London, 1998.
3. Victoria Kastner. Hearst Castle- The Biography of a
Country House. Abrams, New York, 2000.
4. Ginger Wadsworth. Architect of Dreams. Lerner
Publications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1990.
5. Most images were downloaded from the web via: Google
images @ www.google images.com. (A few of the images
were scanned from the above listed books.)
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