Louis Christian Mullgardt
{{short description|American architect}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|01|18}}
| birth_place = Franklin County, Missouri
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|01|12|1866|01|18}}
| death_place = San Francisco, California
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| occupation = Architect
| spouse = {{Marriage|Laura R. Steffens|June 9, 1897}}
| children = 2
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| education = Harvard University
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File:Hot Springs second Arlington Hotel 1922.jpeg, designed by the architectural firm of McClure, Stewart, and Mullgardt of St. Louis]]
Louis Christian Mullgardt (1866-1942) was an American architect associated with the First Bay Tradition.{{cite web|url=http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/sfmod.pdf|title=San Francisco Modern Architecture and Landscape Design 1935-1970 Historic Context Statement|last=Brown|first=Mary |date=September 30, 2010|publisher=California Office of Historic Preservation|pages=83|accessdate=16 August 2011}}
Early life and education
Mullgardt was born in Franklin County, Missouri on January 18, 1866.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-IDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA99 |title=Press Reference Library Notables of the West |volume=II |publisher=International News Service |page=99 |year=1915 |access-date=2020-07-25 |via=Google Books}} His earlier years were spent in St. Louis, where he began the study of architecture. Subsequently, he continued his studies at Harvard University. Following this, he went to Chicago, 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.
Career
He designed houses in Berkeley, Oakland and other cities; the Court of the Ages at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition; the San Francisco Juvenile Court and Detention Home; the Durant School in Oakland; and a major renovation of the former M. H. de Young Memorial Museum.{{cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=Mullgardt+Louis+Christian+1866-1942-cr.xml|title=Louis Christian Mullgardt (1866-1942)|work=iath.virginia.edu|accessdate=17 August 2011}}
He made design proposals for multi-building complexes for downtown Honolulu in 1915 and for Yosemite Valley in 1916. He was hired in 1918 to design the Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House at Stanford University but was dismissed after prematurely publicizing the assignment without the Hoovers' consent.{{cite web | url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/santaclara/hoo.htm | title=Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House | work=California's Historic Silicon Valley | publisher=National Park Service | accessdate=2007-03-12}}
In 1902, he was commissioned to go to Manchester, England, and in 1903, to London 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 San Francisco Art Association, and Secretary of the Group Jury for Etchings and Engravings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.{{cite book|author=Urban America (Organization)|title=Architectural forum: the magazine of building|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=godHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA179|accessdate=16 August 2011|edition=Now in the public domain.|year=1915|publisher=Time Inc.|pages=179–}}
Personal life
Death and legacy
He died in San Francisco on January 12, 1942.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56049860/architect-dies/ |title=Architect Dies |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |location=San Francisco |agency=AP |page=4 |date=1942-01-16 |access-date=2020-07-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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.[http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S29/48/65K98/ "Robert Judson Clark, father of Arts and Crafts revival, dies"]. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
Published writing
- (1915) [https://books.google.com/books?id=y1PBTzMOWA4C The Architecture & Landscape Gardening of the Exposition]
References
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External links
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- 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- [https://books.google.com/books?id=qGIoAAAAYAAJ] Retrieved 26 July 2012.
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Category:Architects from California
Category:Architects from St. Louis
Category:People from Franklin County, Missouri
Category:19th-century American architects