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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLA PALOMA AVENUE 20235 (2)HISTORIC RESOURCES INVENTORY ( #32) IDENTIFICATION 1. Common name: None 2. Historic name: Hayfield House 3. Street or rural address: 20235 La Paloma Avenue City: Saratoga Zip: 95070 County: Santa Clara 4. Parcel number: 397 -24 -038, 074 5. Present Owner: Spaich Bros. City: Saratoga Ownership is: Public: Address: P.O. Box 363 Zip: 95070 Private: X 6. Present Use: Residence Original Use: Residence DESCRIPTION 7a. Architectural style: Modified English Country 7b. Briefly describe the present physical appearance of the site or structure and describe any major alterations from its original condition: The basic appearance of this building is a modified English Country House. It is multi - gabled with the main roof detailed as a large hip roof from the first floor walls. The second floor area is built within the hip with symmetrical dormers at front and rear, providing light. There is a large circular window in the large, single story gabled wing at each end of the front elevation. There is a light Tudor feel to the structure, through the column treatment at the front and rear porches and with the multi -flues on the numerous chimneys. The windows and french doors are wood and multi - paned. This residence has a very tailored and horizontal feeling with handsome use of dormers, typical of Julia Morgan designs. (photograph here) 8. Construction date: Estimated: Factual: 1920 -21 9. Architect: Julia Morgan 10. Builder: Unknown 11. Approx. prop. size Frontage: Depth: approx. acreage: 9.5 12. Date(s) of enclosed photograph(s): 1988 13. Condition: Excellent:X Good: Fair: Deteriorated: No longer in existence: 14. Alterations: 15. Surroundings: (Check more than one if necessary) Open land: X Scattered buildings: Densely built -up: Residential: X Industrial: Commercial: Other: 16. Threats to site: None known: X Private development: Zoning: Vandalism: Public Works project: Other: 17. Is the structure: On its original site? X Moved? Unknown? 18. Related features: SIGNIFICANCE 19. Briefly state historical and /or architectural importance (include dates, events, and persons associated with the site). Henrietta and Chauncey Goodrich bought 17 acres of hayfields from Carson Cunningham in 1919. They commissioned the Bay Area architect, Julia Morgan, to design their home on a knoll and named it Hayfield for its location in the vast acreage of hay. Miss Morgan lived with the Goodrich family in a nearby rented home while designing the residence and to follow the construction. The house was built in 1920 -21; it was officially occupied on March 18, 1921, the first birthday of their son, one of four children. Mrs. Goodrich grew up in Belvedere as Henrietta de Saussure Blanding, the daughter of Gordon Blanding, a prominent attorney in Marin County. She met and married Mr. Goodrich just prior to the purchase of this property. Mr. Goodrich was theson of Edward E. Goodrich who received title in 1882 for the olive farm planted and cultivated by Don Jose Ramon Arguello on a portion of his El Quito Land Grant. Goodrich was an attorney and resided at Hayfield until his death in 1940. Mrs. Goodrich then married an old family friend, Willard Durham, a professor of English at UC Berkeley, who lived until 1955. She then married another friend and professor of English from Berkeley, Benjamin Lehman, in 1957. They lived at Hayfield until her death in 1973; he remained until his death in 1978. The Goodrich family sold the estate to the present owners, who divided the 17 acres into two parcels in 1980, leaving 9.31 acres for Hayfield. 20. Main theme of the historic resource: (If more than one is checked, number in order of importance.) Locational sketch map (draw and label site and Architecture: X Arts /Leisure: surrounding streets, roads, and prominent landmarks): Economic /Industrial: NORTH Exploration /Settlement: Government: Military: Religion: Social /Ed.: 21. Sources (List books, documents, o` surveys, personal interviews and their dates). h Santa Clara County Heritage Resource a Inventory, 1979; F. Cunningham, Saratoga's First Hundred Years, 1967; Interview with 3 ` Melita Oden and Mary McHugh, former housekeeper for the family, 1988. 22. Date form prepared: 4/88 By (name): SHPC Sa,� Organization: City of Saratoga Address: 13777 Fruitvale Avenue 1Os City: Saratoga Zip: 95070 CJK Phone: 867 -3438 �. CITY OF.SARATOGA PLANNING DEPARTMENT IDENTIFICATION Street Address �Q��.� La Pal e)n)a- Avenues Historic Name Present Owner , �Sr�Q�;ch 'gyros, ��nc Neal, Spc�tch Address p0 V6 C.>-,e 5(0 6 OLY a-koap , 0-6 G 503 O CULTURAL RESOURCES INVENTORY INVENTORY # �v PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN A (date) 00115r u-c�— nod �Y,o�o�v�aph�c� APN -;3qq° ?q °0 7) '? Present Use t::en li Original , Use Other Past Uses DESCRIPTION Briefly describe the present physical appearance of the site or structure and describe any major alterations from its original condition: Approximate property size: Lot size (in feet) Frontage W90-&(0 Depth -'— or approximate acreage A I Condition (check one): Excellent ( ) Good ( ) Fair ( ) ,riorated ( )' No longer in existence ( ) Is the feature: Altered ?,( ) Unaltered? ( ) Location sketch map (draw and label site and surrounding streets, roads, and pro- minent landmarks) -T I {� o ICI en iQ) r Threats to site: None known ( ) Private Development ( ) Vandalism ( ) Other ( ) Primary exterior building material: Zoning ( ) Public. Works Project ( ) Stone ( ) Brick ( ) Stucco ( ) Adobe ( ) Wood (-A Other ( ) Is the structure: On its original site? ( ) Moved? ( ) Unknown ( ) Year of initial construction I I 9Z C) This date.is: Factual X Estimated ( ) Architect (if known) Builder ( if known) Related features: Y) Barn ( ) Carriage House ( ) Outhouse ( ) Shed(s) ( ) Formal garden(s) ( ) Windmill Watertower /Tankhouse ( ) Other ()e) `J���lC,�v°� °�, (��1��+���y�'�'Fj% None , e SIGNIFICANCE Briefly state historical and /or architectural importance (include dates, events, and persons associated with the site when known): ,�• 6eodr en, The man ,5lon it 6�4UCa�ed ort a. �JJ6/1 in a. /7- tl&e Source (books, documents, surveys, personal interviews, and their dates): ?IonnM 17e r4meY4 lC-kr— uPdn•� ire S�nft�Cl g �' P CJ ca Form prepared by: —6A y-A.A � ��� Date: r � J .. t HAYFIELD HOUSE 18888 Hayfield Court, Saratoga California Photos of Original Structure Circa Oct. 1999 OCT o 6 2000 PL�,,.,4iNG DEPT. 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' ►�► is �\ ' : \r ► i6• ' 13. Condition: Excellent:X Good: Fair: Deteriorated: No longer in existence: 14. Alterations: 15. Surroundings: (Check more than one if necessary) Open land: X Scattered buildings: Densely built -up: Residential: X Industrial: Commercial: Other: 16. Threats to site: None known: X Private development: Zoning: Vandalism: Public Works project: Other: 17. Is the structure: On its original site? X Moved? Unknown? 18. Related features: SIGNIFICANCE 19. Briefly state historical and /or architectural importance (include dates, events, and persons associated with the site). Henrietta and Chauncey Goodrich bought 17 acres of hayfields from Carson Cunningham in 1919. They commissioned the Bay, Area architect, Julia Morgan, to design their home on a knoll and named it Hayfield for its location in the vast acreage of hay. Miss Morgan lived with the Goodrich family in a nearby rented home while designing the residence and to follow the construction. The house was built in 1929 -21; it was officially occupied on March 18, 1921, the first birthday of their son, one of four children. Mrs. Goodrich grew up in Belvedere as Henrietta de Saussure Blanding, the daughter of Gordon Blanding, a prominent attorney in Marin County. She met and married Mr. Goodrich just prior to the purchase of this property. Mr. Goodrich was theson of Edward E. Goodrich who received title in 1882 for the olive farm planted and cultivated by Don Jose Ramon Arguello on a portion of his E1 Quito Land Grant. Goodrich was an attorney and resided at Hayfield until his death in 1940. Mrs. Goodrich then married an old family friend, Willard Durham, a professor of English at UC Berkeley, who lived until 1955. She then married another friend and professor of English from Berkeley, Benjamin Lehman, in 1957. They lived at Hayfield until her death in 1973; he remained until his death in 1978. The Goodrich family sold the estate to the present owners, who divided the 17 acres into two parcels in 1980, leaving 9.31 acres for Hayfield. 20. Main theme of the historic resource: (If more than one is checked, number in order of importance.) Locational sketch map (draw and label site and Architecture: X Arts /Leisure: surrounding streets, roads, and prominent landmarks): Economic /Industrial: NORTH Exploration /Settlement: Government: Military: Religion: Social /Ed.: 21. Sources (List books, documents, surveys, personal interviews and their dates) . Santa Clara County Heritage Resource a Inventory, 1979; F. Cunningham, Saratoga's First Hundred Years, 1967; Interview with A Melita Oden and Mary McHugh, former P, housekeeper for the family, 1988. 22. Date form prepared: 4/88 5 By (name): SHPC Organization: City of Saratoga Address: 13777 Fruitvale Avenue LOs City: Saratoga Zip: 95070�is Phone: 867 -3438 '� HISTORIC RESOURCES INVENTORY ( #32) IDENTIFICATION 1. Common name: None 2. Historic name: Hayfield House 3. Street or rural address: City: Saratoga 20235 La Paloma Avenue Zip: 95070 County: Santa Clara 4. Parcel number: 397 -24 -038, 074 5. Present Owner: Spaich Bros. City: Saratoga Ownership is: Public: Address: P.O. Box 363 Zip: 95070 Private: X 6. Present Use: Residence Original Use: Residence DESCRIPTION 7a. Architectural style: Modified English Country 7b. Briefly describe the present physical appearance of the site or structure and describe any major alterations from its original condition: The basic appearance of this building is a modified English Country House. It is multi - gabled with the main roof detailed as a large hip roof from the first floor walls. The second floor area is built within the hip with symmetrical dormers at front and rear, providing light. There is a large circular window in the large, single story gabled wing at each end of the front elevation. There is a light Tudor feel to the structure, through the column treatment at the front and rear porches and with the multi -flues on the numerous chimneys. The windows and french doors are wood and multi - paned. This residence has a very tailored and horizontal feeling with handsome use of dormers, typical of Julia Morgan designs. (photograph here) 8. Construction date: Estimated: Factual: 1920 -21 9. Architect: Julia Morgan 10. Builder: Unknown 11. Approx. prop..size Frontage: Depth: approx. acreage: 9.5 12. Date(s) of enclosed photograph(s): 1988 • Picture from the past. } - SARA q6A E ,= MAP �. :. - �.....• of--- 4.�•4+:'t+, R, z%. (".+ ^ I -� ' La Paloma ` �l � ` � ., �' PX j �IY.� Misr✓. - � I * � -\ h � '. Terrace s - q•�C3'- •�'t'r""�'S'•4kFA -; I - ,� :r .;� •' •mss . +"��1- t^aI�•'!�. •��++ : �Yy.. +i�.•'+i�fiM.44"�'�:,�"a��ly�Y� 4. O --t - ,� ..,. 33' �' � c Ji a' 1s, .k i y%. � £'_ it.x y, a v K4„• ..!? "j!1 '_ O . Q O 0• ' n r ��•'��`� �til.•'��+..r: ..- .'t':.s c:l:::'Y1�Luii :7.�x'�: �F:73i �'i.Y�':..•`'.�.�4a�41t ', �, y� ' BUNGALOW BUILT FOR MR. E. D. HOOKER IN LA PALOMA 2 TERRACE. JOHN RODONI• BUILDER, - i♦ A PALOMA Best '� c.14 Climate .. ^, TERRACE 0 9 ore - • b t ` A-r SARATOGA Earth a A DISTINCTIVE SUBURBAN RESIDENCE SECTION 1K 5 ,� ' 0.11 : v "ice F.RE >•ou can enjoy mountain air and scenery 1 1 as well as every convenience of city life. ' Q Electric cars at your very door, giving direct service with San Jose and with San San Francisco, © o e via Palo Alto. /e, Hi b -class im rorements make L4 PALUSIA g p - , THRRAC1: ideal. The road -ways are macadamised with Saratoga Cement Rock ; complete sewer r,3 Y. system— every lot connected. 0 f Q Concrete side - walks, curbs and gutters. ` 0 bl Q Circulating water system ; p u r e mountain water in great .abundance. a © ©° g Electric lights; Telephone. a ,y q livery• lot has a view peculiar to itself. A /.s•17" .lY•L �. r /Yl. rf ¢ wonderful panorama of red -wood covered moue- t tains stretches out to the south and west ; a no J less enchanting valley view lies to the north and S ' east. t` . Q This land was intended by Mature to afford ideal home sites —it has been embellished by man's it .4 to the highest degree of perfection. PRICES Q Fa shown on the Map can be bought for Recorded of Y, 1915. in Book O of Maps. page , $boo, exceptin{; lots 2, 29 and 34 which are Sl000 $1. Record, of Santa each, and 17 and 18 wb ieb are $ i Boo each. Clara County. California . �f a IV r= t � - ig-, Lam, • f �f.- � +�.� � - y�R` .1. t +�Ta ry-.° - -^f�.�s* M� �_ '� = = � �,- : - .�:: i.:• s _ .fit ' r'�'"- "� �, .n. ��������;,.' +�..�. _ .„-� -tea -y�a+� s`�� ice" � � �- J� -_ � .4 _. 'a' •' .- 'iS � _ �. ob � _ Yom'-' 4��������a"�� � � �� • ��i�?� ' +•r��M���� ... y .lip �° Gf�' gyp C `PC � � �/� ��° .r.sa.+ 9'.. .v �._ . r... n.. �......... �. �. �r�. i..`.J...___........._.. J.. s. a.._.. uev. �m�.. u. ..ru�a.............r_.......... r....�...� JUL IA TOGA MORGAN IN SARA - Sara Holmes Boutelle ` • J � i '. Y � t ' p .x. h,Ay�sr^ti,w�; t t; , y'�i SA X37, . � a�F�+,l.,.y �1 ry'�J t Y , _ t a. f 'i s��t'dyr 7f1 �.,t�jZf ,lY�1!7j�����iJd►Y +►.��«! -..:,t hi',ial. w1,AT ..:•.� ..:1 ;.i .. RiFi�.t»`ry ?t'di Saratoga Historical Muxvm Saratoga Foothill Club Among the many architectural gems which delight visitors to Saratoga and are a source of pride for the residents, there are several buildings designed by an important woman architect, Julia Morgan. The Foothill Club,," the Federated Church, a splendid country house and some other more modest dwellings are what we know of her work in this Santa Clara County town. Julia Morgan, born in 1872 in San Francisco, grew up in Oakland in very comfortable circumstances, the second of five children in a large Victorian house. Gifted in mathe- matics, she early wanted to become an architect. As there was no architectural school in the west, she enrolled in the engineering course at Berkeley. Here she joined the "Theta" sorority, making lifelong friends, several of whom became clients. Here, also, she . had the good fortune to encounter Bernard Maybeck, a new teacher of descriptive geometry who had studied at the world center for architectural education, the Ecole des Beaux -Arts in Paris. He encouraged her to persevere in architecture by employing her when she graduated in 1894, as assistant on his own building projects, and by , recommending her to the Beaux -Arts, ..which had never admitted a woman. The Morgan family agreed to send 'Julia to Paris to study. Six years in Paris with art- historical trips on the continent combined well with her assiduous pursuit of what was to be learned once she was admitted to the Beaux -Arts. The work there was all theoretical, all competitive, with an emphasis oil fine drawingofelevaiion, sections and plans. Reference was _ to historical snucturrs of sigrtificau(e. With no interest in don►estic building; or in fact to doing any real building. The drawings produced were eclectic in character, with models from classical, medieval and Renaissance periods. Eclecticism in architecture depends on a wide knowledge of styles and a sensitive eye -hand ability to see a plan on a site. Miss Morgan was notably successful in the Beaux -Arts design competitions. In addition, she had the opportunity of designing and supervising the actual construction of a "Grand Salon" for Mrs. Harriet Fearing of New York and Newport, in the town of Fontainebleau near Paris, in 1902. Fresh from her Paris experience, just turned thirty, Morgan found a place with John Galen Howard, the architect in charge of implementing the new UC Berkeley campus plan. She worked for him on the Hearst Mining Building and on the Greek Theatre, earning respect and commendation on both jobs. There might have been every reason to expect her to continue with Howard in his developing of the campus and the new architectural . school for the next twenty years or so, this in spite of his quoted reference to Morgan as "an excellent draftsman whom I have m pay almost nothing, as it is a worrlan. , Julia NIm-gall, however, wanted to practice on her own, with an office, an "atche•r" in . her own name. She successfully passed the state certification examinations, and by 1904 had set up her practice in San Francisco. . Important early commissions were the Mills College Bell Tower and library, and the North Star Mine house in Grass Valley. Residences in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco kept the firm afloat in those first years. After the lQW earthquake and fire, architects flourished, as the city had to be rebuilt. Morgan's success in restructuring the Fairmont Hotel led to other significant commissions. The Viavi Building on Pine Street and the Trading Room at the Merchants Exchange were conspicuous examples, In the decade following the fire, the Morgan office was a busy place. Churches and hospitals, additions to Phoebe Hearst's "Hacienda" in Pleasanton, important homes in Vallejo, San Rafael, San Anselmo and Piedmont spread her fame beyond the immediate city. The architect's friendship with Phoebe Apperson Hearst, stemming from that lady's interest in the women students at Berkeley (a decided minority in the 1890's), and their subsequent encounter in Paris, was certainly helpful. Walter Steilberg, longtime associate, pointed out however, that it was among other architects and engineers that word got out about her skills. The network of sorority sisters drew clients to Morgan, too. One especially, Grace Fisher Richards, had become a power in Oakland and the State YWCA Boards. She later moved as a bride to Saratoga. Julia Morgan was entrusted with the design of the YWCA Conference Grounds in Pacific: Grove, under- written in large part by Phoebe Hearst. This became Asilomar, still today an important site for conferences and a State Monument. During the,same year (1915) the Morgan office comple.ed large YWCA's in Oakland and in San Jose. Further RradinK Bouu•Ilr. S:ua. •`Iltr Wont.tn Who R11111 S;ut Sinttrhn.•• California Monthly, 11. C. Brrkt•Iey, April 1976. Loogsrtcih, Richaid. /hhha Morgan, Sorer Introductory Notes, Berkeley Architectural Iit•ritage Ass(riation. 1977. Nfunay, Ken, The Golden pays of San Simeon, Catden City, 1971 Ric%%. Sur:un v, red., The Julia Morgan Archi- lrrttral11i.Vfnry I'rolehl, Regional (hal Ilistor). OIficr. Bancroft Library. 11. C. &•rkrley, 1976. St•iltwig, Walter, "Sorer Examples of the Work of Julia Morgan,•' Arhhilro and Enginerr of California, NovrmtK•t 1918. '1•r „u•. Susana, ed.. Women in Arnrrinarh All 111hv Thor. Whiutry Pies+, 1977. Julia Morgan in Saratoga' It was in the first years of this century that clubs became important for women in a way that similar associations for men had developed. These were institutions separate from home or business, where group activities could take place, with facilities for recreation and for civic and educational programs. -The Foothill. CluVin Saratoga was chartered as such an institution in 1907. When Julia Morgan was called in to design their building in 1915; according to club records and local newspapers, she offered four possible plans for their site, and brought in the one unanimously chosen for under $5,000. In the 1970's this building was insured for $150,000, hardly the current cost of replacement. The redwood structure with pergolas and gardens is simple and timeless. That it was up -to -date for its period is shown by Morgan's inclusion of a motion picture projection booth in the original blue - prints, with an opposite alcove where a screen could be pulled down for performances. The open timbers remind us of the rafters of a California barn, but there is an urbanity to the detail of doorways and stage which places it among the distinguished small redwood buildings in the state. Across Park Place from the Foothill Club, in the heart of Saratoga, is the Federatt;d.Church. •1 -lore sorority sister `Hay field," the Chauncey Goodrich House Grace Fisher Richards may have been instrumental in bringing in Julia Morgan as architect. Morgan gave Saratoga a church of clean, simple design, of poured concrete, Mediter- ranean in feeling. Its open square bell tower, with three arched windows on each side and a tiled roof, presides over Park Place. Behind the pair of massive double doors, the interior, with its fine carved wood altar and pews, is lighted by high narrow windows shielding worshippers from the hot Valley sun. Now much added to, so that the original building is used as a chapel, it still continues to function, as does the Foothill Chub, in the Axonometric Drawing, Foothill Club Frank 7.wan 1rwn c:", manner anticipated by the architect and by the founders. Set on a gentle slope among orcharc at the edge of town is the country house for the "Chautcey Goodrich family of San Francisco. Mrs. Harric de Saussure Blanding Goodrich had grown up in a Julia Morgan house in Belvedere. The Goodriches had fir rented a farmhouse in Saratoga to get away from the foggy coastal rigor They were so pleased by the locatioi and climate that they asked Julia Morgan to build them a summer pla( among the fruit trees looking off to d Santa C RIZ Mountains. This was to be oriented to summer living, with thick walls of concrete, tiled veranda on three sides, a pool close at hand. The bedrooms faced north and the original entrance with large hall wa to have been on the north side of th U- shaped plan. Before it was finishes however, the Goodriches had decide that the' house had beronte too impo 41111 (and (oo) expensive) for just a few months of the year. They affirme that it was to be their principal residence and Mr. Goodrich is said to have asked Miss Morgan to plan o making the wide door facing the mountains the main entrance, This door was at the center of the spaciOL verandas extending around three sidt of the house, verandas which were t serve as indoor - outdoor rooms for informal eating, relaxing, and as a kind of entrance hall not quite insid the building. The original entrance hall on the north still led to the stair- case, and gave off to master bedrooms as well as to living room and library. Opposite was a service wing leading from dining room and pantry. French doors opened onto the veranda from each downstairs room. "Hayfield House" is commodious, just one room deep on the first floor, hilt about thirty rooms in all, with space for some two hundred to gather at a reception or musicale. Upstairs is a large hall sitting room, another library and a sewing room at the south, with bedrooms and connecting baths and sleeping porches provided for children and guests. Hospitality and pleasant living is expressed throughout. Sand - blasted redwood and Tiffany plaster on the interiors gave a simple yet elegant atmosphere requiring little care, unpretentious and almost casual, yet ready for the most formal Occasion. There are collages for staff on the other side of the.pool and gardens, although housekeeper Mary McHugh kept an eye on the whole operation from her quarters upstairs for more than fifty years. During the period when Julia Morgan was frequently in Saratoga on these important jobs, she also built several small houses, one for Admiral :;Reiter and another for C.om. 'Johri Sisson Graham. Another ''cottage," for which the drawing is in the Bancroft Library, shows Ihc plans will) no client's name, no date and no address except "Saratoga." At the north end of town at the start of the Sunnyvale Road, Miss Morgan built at least one house for` 13. Grant Taylor in a grove on the hillside sheltered by a great oak. It is said to have been designed for a music teacher (a relative of Taylor's) with a pleasant music room directly at the street entrance so the pupils would not have to go through 'the rest of the house. The main living room is framed by a pergola, and has a large window that is actually a two - story arched opening which gives a Iformal symmetry to this unpretentious redwood house. Wood panelling throughout the interior has for the most part been painted over, although the dining room is intact. There is another large redwood house on�OaV Street; one of two built in about 1907 for the same client (Taylor), a banker, which shows some characteristics of Morgan's work, although only hearsay can back the claim. Another small cottage on'La Paloma is similarly lacking in proof. Saratoga was a sophisticated town, architecturally. Other fine houses built there by distinguished San Fran- cisco architects: Willis Polk, the Cuiletts, Gardner Dailey and Walter Steilberg, with several gardens by Tommy Church and the Memorial Arch for World War I by Bruce Porter. Even among other riches, however, Julia Morgan's designs stand out, continuing to fulfill their original roles. She is important as the first woman to be accepted at the Beaux - Arts, as the architect of two great state nurntimenls, Asilonrar and San Simeon. She had a slxrial art of rt•lating Ili(, structtur to dic• site and at Ihc saute time to the client's wishes. To this subtle skill, Julia Morgan's Saratoga buildings give ample. testimony. C Further Viewing State Monuments Asilomar, Pacific Grove; San Simeon San Francisco The Heritage, 3400 Laguna; University High School, Jackson Street; Potrero Hill Com- munity House; 'nic Residence, 940 Powell; London Chartered Bank; Zen (:enter, Page & Laguna; Native Daughters of the Golden West, Baker Street. Berkeley Old St. John's Church, (bllege & Derby; Girton, University of California; University of Califoillia W'onten's Gym (with Bernard Maylxrk); Morgan House, 2821 Claremont; Baptist Theological Seminary, Dwight & Hillegas; Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant. Oakland YWCA, Webster & 15th; Mills College Campus; I Iniied Presbvterian Church, College near Claremont: king's Daughters Home, Broadway 39th. Sacramento Public Market (now the Secretary of State Offices): Children's Aid Society Headquarters (formerly the Glethe House). Los Angeles Hollywood Studio Club; Examiner Building Hawaii Honolulu YWCA. Hilo Columbarium. FIsewhere. North Star Mine House, Grass Palley; The Monday Club, San Luis Obislx); Lolxvo Building, Santa Barbara; The Minerva Club. Santa Mau'ia; Ihc Wonu•n's Club, Sausalito; YWCA, Fresno; Y%VCA, Pasadena; YWCA, Riverside; NAW A, Salt lake (:it),; YW(:A, San Pedro; Veterans Building, Palo Alto. Nam V Ilvatll M.I.t B. Grant Taylor House. Production Credits Grant front the Sourisseau Academy. Saul Jose State Foundation; design assistancr by Nancy Ilcadalxlhl and Onillne Ilowe'll Boulclic: Fooilidl Club matet'ial from NIchla Oden and the Sa raloga I lisurcical Museum; hrochure 6-sign by F.:ulk 7.wart. y The Fi,dcralyd Church n. .... s nra.0 ohl Occasion. There are collages for staff on the other side of the.pool and gardens, although housekeeper Mary McHugh kept an eye on the whole operation from her quarters upstairs for more than fifty years. During the period when Julia Morgan was frequently in Saratoga on these important jobs, she also built several small houses, one for Admiral :;Reiter and another for C.om. 'Johri Sisson Graham. Another ''cottage," for which the drawing is in the Bancroft Library, shows Ihc plans will) no client's name, no date and no address except "Saratoga." At the north end of town at the start of the Sunnyvale Road, Miss Morgan built at least one house for` 13. Grant Taylor in a grove on the hillside sheltered by a great oak. It is said to have been designed for a music teacher (a relative of Taylor's) with a pleasant music room directly at the street entrance so the pupils would not have to go through 'the rest of the house. The main living room is framed by a pergola, and has a large window that is actually a two - story arched opening which gives a Iformal symmetry to this unpretentious redwood house. Wood panelling throughout the interior has for the most part been painted over, although the dining room is intact. There is another large redwood house on�OaV Street; one of two built in about 1907 for the same client (Taylor), a banker, which shows some characteristics of Morgan's work, although only hearsay can back the claim. Another small cottage on'La Paloma is similarly lacking in proof. Saratoga was a sophisticated town, architecturally. Other fine houses built there by distinguished San Fran- cisco architects: Willis Polk, the Cuiletts, Gardner Dailey and Walter Steilberg, with several gardens by Tommy Church and the Memorial Arch for World War I by Bruce Porter. Even among other riches, however, Julia Morgan's designs stand out, continuing to fulfill their original roles. She is important as the first woman to be accepted at the Beaux - Arts, as the architect of two great state nurntimenls, Asilonrar and San Simeon. She had a slxrial art of rt•lating Ili(, structtur to dic• site and at Ihc saute time to the client's wishes. To this subtle skill, Julia Morgan's Saratoga buildings give ample. testimony. C Further Viewing State Monuments Asilomar, Pacific Grove; San Simeon San Francisco The Heritage, 3400 Laguna; University High School, Jackson Street; Potrero Hill Com- munity House; 'nic Residence, 940 Powell; London Chartered Bank; Zen (:enter, Page & Laguna; Native Daughters of the Golden West, Baker Street. Berkeley Old St. John's Church, (bllege & Derby; Girton, University of California; University of Califoillia W'onten's Gym (with Bernard Maylxrk); Morgan House, 2821 Claremont; Baptist Theological Seminary, Dwight & Hillegas; Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant. Oakland YWCA, Webster & 15th; Mills College Campus; I Iniied Presbvterian Church, College near Claremont: king's Daughters Home, Broadway 39th. Sacramento Public Market (now the Secretary of State Offices): Children's Aid Society Headquarters (formerly the Glethe House). Los Angeles Hollywood Studio Club; Examiner Building Hawaii Honolulu YWCA. Hilo Columbarium. FIsewhere. North Star Mine House, Grass Palley; The Monday Club, San Luis Obislx); Lolxvo Building, Santa Barbara; The Minerva Club. Santa Mau'ia; Ihc Wonu•n's Club, Sausalito; YWCA, Fresno; Y%VCA, Pasadena; YWCA, Riverside; NAW A, Salt lake (:it),; YW(:A, San Pedro; Veterans Building, Palo Alto. Nam V Ilvatll M.I.t B. Grant Taylor House. Production Credits Grant front the Sourisseau Academy. Saul Jose State Foundation; design assistancr by Nancy Ilcadalxlhl and Onillne Ilowe'll Boulclic: Fooilidl Club matet'ial from NIchla Oden and the Sa raloga I lisurcical Museum; hrochure 6-sign by F.:ulk 7.wart.