Louis Christian Mullgardt (1866-1942) was an American

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associated with the

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. He designed houses in

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and other cities; the Court of the Ages at the 1915

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; the

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Juvenile Court and Detention Home; the Durant School in Oakland; and a major renovation of the former

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. He made design proposals for multi-building complexes for downtown

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in 1915 and for

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in 1916. He was hired in 1918 to design the Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House at

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but was dismissed after prematurely publicizing the assignment without the Hoovers' consent. Mullgardt born in

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on January 18, 1866. His earlier years were spent in

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, where he began the study of architecture. Subsequently, he continued his studies at

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. Following this, he went to

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, where he began designing. In 1893, he entered private practice in St. Louis. In 1895, he made an extended trip to Europe for further study. He married Laura R. Steffens in Chicago on June 9, 1897, and they had two children. In 1902, he was commissioned to go to

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, and in 1903, to

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and Scotland. He moved to San Francisco in 1905 and established a solo office. Mullgardt was active in several organizations of architects and artists. He served as president of the San Francisco Society of Architects, president of the California Society of Etchers, vice-president of the San Francisco Society of Artists, director of the

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, and Secretary of the Group Jury for Etchings and Engravings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. He died in San Francisco on January 12, 1942. Art historian Robert Judson Clark was the leading expert on Mullgardt until his death in 2011. He wrote the catalog essay on the architect for a 1966 exhibition at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum."Robert Judson Clark, father of Arts and Crafts revival, dies"
Retrieved 26 July 2012.

Published writing

* (1915
''The Architecture & Landscape Gardening of the Exposition''

References

External links

* Irving F. Morrow, "Recent Works of Louis Christian Mullgardt, F.A.I.A.," ''The Architect and Engineer of California'' 51:3 (December 1917), pp. 39

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