Julia Morgan/Forney collection, 1907-1931 (bulk 1907-1917)

Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957

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Born in San Francisco, Julia Morgan (1872-1957) grew up in Oakland in a spacious Victorian house. Gifted in mathematics and encouraged in her studies by her mother, Morgan was influenced to become an architect by her mother's cousin, Pierre Le Brun, who designed an early skyscraper, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower in Manhattan. In 1890, she enrolled in the undergraduate civil engineering program at the University of California at Berkeley, in part because there were no architectural school...

Hoover, Ira Wilson.

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Ira Wilson Hoover came from Philadelphia to the San Francisco Bay Area with John Galen Howard in the 1890s, and served as his chief draftsman until about 1907, when he became Julia Morgan's junior partner. In 1917 he returned to the East Coast. From the description of Ira Wilson Hoover architectural clipping books, [ca. 1909-ca. 1914] (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 38366253 ...

Morgan and Hoover.

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Online Archive of California

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