A new book chronicles the stunning career of San Francisco’s Julia Morgan.
The Hall in San Francisco’s Merchants Exchange Building, designed by Julia Morgan. A new book chronicles the life and work of the legendary California architect. Ask a Bay Area resident if they’ve heard of architect Julia Morgan, and chances are they will either say no or, more commonly, “Why does that name sound familiar?”
Morgan’s ties to the Bay Area and her friendship with Hearst are just a few of the windows that author Victoria Kastner opens for readers in “Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect” , available Tuesday. The book, which features gorgeous, full-color images of Morgan’s designs, also reveals much about her Paris education, her family life, her attitudes and her passions. By the end of Kastner’s book, Morgan feels close and dear.
“Once I saw San Simeon, I never left,” Kastner says. She worked as a commercial baker in Los Osos until she landed a job giving tours at Hearst Castle in 1979. She eventually became the park’s historian, and between 1998 to 2013, she wrote three books on the Castle’s history. She left Hearst Castle in 2018 so she could work full time on Morgan’s biography.
Morgan thought “the building should speak for itself.” She managed to be an epitome of modesty who toppled the walls of misogyny and social norms that were everywhere in the 1900s. There is no evidence that she ever had a romantic relationship with anyone — man or woman. Throughout her book, Kastner weaves in Morgan’s other life passion: her family. She was a caretaker to her parents and siblings in good times and through many tragedies. She cared deeply for people. In 1924, when her elderly mother Eliza — who was resistant to change — needed more care than she could give her, Morgan built another house with a nurse’s quarters near her sister’s home in Berkeley.
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