Irving F. and Gertrude Comfort Morrow collection, 1914-1958.

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Irving F. and Gertrude Comfort Morrow collection, 1914-1958.

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Documents projects by husband and wife Gertrude Comfort Morrow and Irving F. Morrow, including projects created by the firms of Morrow & Garren and Morrow & Morrow. Project records are organized by creator, chronologically within, and consist of textual records, photographs, and drawings. Large projects in the collection include the Golden Gate Bridge, Mission San Juan Bautista, the Golden Gate International Exposition, and homes in St. Francis Wood. Also includes records relating to Irving Morrow's involvement in the Commonwealth Club of California and the Historical American Buildings Survey.

6 boxes, 2 flat boxes, 2 flat file drawers, 10 tubes.

California Digital Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8310382

California Digital Library

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St. Francis Wood, San Francisco.

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Morrow & Morrow.

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Morrow, Irving F. (Irving Foster), b. 1884.

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Irving F. Morrow (1884-1952) was born in Oakland, California in 1884. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1906, and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1908 to 1911. Morrow began his practice in San Francisco and Oakland in 1916, designing schools, houses, banks, theaters, hotels, and commercial buildings. He practiced with William I. Garren (Garren & Morrow, 1916-1925) and with his wife Gertrude Comfort (Morrow & Morrow, 1925-1952). Morrow served as consulting architect of ...

Morrow & Garren.

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Morrow, Gertrude

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Garren, William R.

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Online Archive of California

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Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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History It has been said that with two great bridges in the course of construction, there began in San Francisco, in about 1933, a substantial feeling that a celebration or exposition should be held to commemorate their completion. As the plans for an exposition developed, it seemed fitting that its theme should be man's progress in communication, transportation, trade and industry, since these were the fields symbolized by the bridges. The S...

Commonwealth Club of California.

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Private nonprofit organization for the study of public issues, based in San Francisco, California. From the description of Commonwealth Club of California records, 1903-2009. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872782 Historical Note The Commonwealth Club of California is a private, nonprofit organization for the nonpartisan study of public issues based in San Francisco, California. It was founded on February 3, 1903, by Sa...

Historic American Building Survey (San Francisco, Calif.)

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The Hampton Lillibridge House was built in 1796 by Rhode Island native, Hampton Lillibridge in the traditional New England style. The house was originally located at 310 East Bryan Street in Savannah, Georgia, but when it was purchased by antiques dealer, Jim Williams, in 1963 it was moved to its present location at 507 East Julian Street in Savannah, where it is known as one of Savannah's most haunted homes. From the description of Hampton Lillibridge House architectural drawings, 1...