1660 M St, Fresno, CA
On this walk, I promised you four things:
- A complete house on top of an apartment building.
- The first junior college in California
- Fresno Free Speech
- And Julia Morgan, Hearst castle's architect designed building in Fresno
So why would a this particular YWCA Residence Hall be on the National Registry of Historic Buildings? Because Julia Morgan designed it. Who was Julia Morgan? Have you ever seen Hearst's Castle? She is the designer of that house on a hill. Because this was the last Morgan YWCA designed structure, it is important to preserve it.
The YWCA Residence Hall was designed by Julia Morgan, one of America's foremost women architects. Morgan was the official architect in the West for the YWCA, one of her best clients. She designed YWCA buildings in most major cities in California, Utah, Hawaii, and in Japan. Built in 1922, the Fresno YWCA Residence Hall is the last such building designed by Morgan that is still used for its original purpose—providing moderate-cost housing for young women.
She was the official West Coast architect for the YWCA, where she designed clubhouses inmuch of the west and the western bowl: California, hawaii, and Japan. There were two other YWCA projects in Fresno: a small bungalow activities building in West Fresno-which is now part of Fresno Pacifi, but the integrity of Morgan's style has been lost; and the Recreation Center on Tuolumne and L Streets. The Asilomar conference center at Pacific Grove used to be a YWCA conference grounds was an example of her work as well.
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