LOUIS CHRISTIAN MULLGARDT 1866–1942
David Gebhard [introduction] and Robert Judson Clark [essay]
David Gebhard [introduction] and Robert Judson Clark [essay]: LOUIS CHRISTIAN MULLGARDT 1866–1942. Santa Barbara: The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966. First edition. A near fine soft cover book with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear. Owner's bookplate on FEP. Otherwise, interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print.
8.5 x 8.5 soft cover book with 40 pages well-illustrated in black-and-white. Published in conjunction wth an exhibition of the same name: The Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara [April 5–May 8, 1966]; The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco [June 27–August 7, 1966]. Includes a bibliography and chronology. This exhibition, "marking the centennial year of the architect's birth," was also held at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco. Traces Mullgardt's career in Chicago, San Francisco, Hawaii, and elsewhere. Among his works were the first de Young Museum and the Court of the Ages and other buildings for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. With bibliography, chronology, and list of projects and works.
From the website for UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Archives: Louis Christian Mullgardt was born in Washington, Missouri, and began apprenticing with architectural firms in St. Louis at age fifteen. Mullgardt formed two short-lived partnerships and worked as a structural consultant in England before arriving in San Francisco to open his own office in 1905. Between 1905 and approximately 1920 he designed residences and large buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area and was appointed to the board of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, for which he designed an ornate courtyard. Mullgardt also designed the President’s house for Stanford University (1915-1918), the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park (1916-1921), and a block-long business center in Honolulu (1919-1921).