Julia Morgan, Arch.Tour-Elmwood Park & Claremont Ct.,Berkeley

Do the Meetup tour in the morning, stop for the pizza and then:
In addition, *On the 4th Sunday of the month there are 45 min. docent led tours of Julia Morgan's Berkeley City Club,2315 Durant St., starting at 1:00pm-3:30pm.

(Photo above JM in Paris, 1900, Cathedral Notre Dame in the background. For more information about JM, read here and see the photos below.)

We're meeting outside the, Berkeley Playhouse/Julia Morgan Theater on College Ave. at Derby St., our first stop on the tour. (Optional stop after the tour, at nearby, Nabolom Bakery & Pizzeria.)

(Along the way we'll see Bernard Maybeck's, First Church of Christ Scientist, a Nat'l Landmark site, where free tours are offered on the first Sunday of every month at 12:15 PM. One of the best ways to experience these buildings is to attend an event there. Across the street is Julia Morgan's 1918 Baptist Theological Seminary. (Bowditch & Dwight Way). Built of brick to resemble the Ashmolean Library of Oxford. Britain's first public museum and the world's first university museum. note. The Seminary's windows and Tudor details recall the period when the Baptist Church was founded.)
We'll pass 2727 Dwight Way, one of the oldest houses on the tour, 1891, remodeled in 1917 by Willis Polk.

Morgan graduated UC in 1894 with a degree in Civil Engineering, one of her specializations was structural engineering. (This benefited her clients greatly, as was seen after the 06' earthquake in her still standing buildings.)
She arrived in Paris in 1896. A few years later it was reported in the San Francisco Call: Paris, Oct.30,1902 - Julia Morgan of San Francisco passed the examination with honors at the Architectural section of the School of Fine Arts, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris France. The first woman to do so. Ironically one of the greatest architects in history,