Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan (1872-1959), the first successful woman architect in the United States, was born in San Francisco.Though best know for her design of San Simeon, The castle-like home of William Randolph Hearst that is now the property of the State of California, she designed numerous public building and private homes. Even today, to own "a Julia Morgan house" carries considerable prestige.To become an architect, Morgan needed great determination as well as a brilliant mind. Since the University of California did not have an architecture curriculum at that time, she prepared for graduate work in Paris by studying civil engineering. In Paris the Ecole des Beaux Arts, which had just begun to admin foreigners, was particularly reluctant to admin a woman. She persisted.however, and became the school's first woman graduate.
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