5-712: The Julia Morgan House , also known as Goethe House , is a Mediterranean Revival mansion , located in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Sacramento, California , constructed by Julia Morgan , the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California. The home, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places , was gifted to Sacramento State University by Charles Goethe after his death in 1966. In 1918, Charles Goethe hired Julia Morgan to draw plans for
10-619: The 1920s and 1930s, the movement drew heavily on the style of palaces and seaside villas and applied them to the rapidly expanding coastal resorts of Florida and California. Structures are typically based on a rectangular floor plan, and feature massive, symmetrical primary façades. Stuccoed walls, red tiled roofs, windows in the shape of arches or circles, one or two stories, wood or wrought iron balconies with window grilles, and articulated door surrounds are characteristic. Keystones were occasionally employed. Ornamentation may be simple or dramatic. Lush gardens often appear. The style
15-744: The National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Sacramento, California is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mediterranean Revival architecture Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada , and certain other countries in the 19th century. It incorporated references to Spanish Renaissance , Spanish Colonial , Italian Renaissance , French Colonial , Beaux-Arts , Moorish architecture , and Venetian Gothic architecture . Peaking in popularity during
20-615: The Sacramento area. In 1999, the home was remodeled and its name was formally changed to the Julia Morgan House. In 2014, the house was remodeled to include business meeting and conference facilities. The house is currently used by the university to hold events by faculty or campus staff or can be rented for corporate and business meetings. This article about a property in Sacramento County, California on
25-433: The house. When Goethe died in 1966 he bequeathed the house along with his library, papers, and a large monetary donation to California State University, Sacramento. Since then, University Enterprises, Inc. has maintained it. In 1982 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places due to its historic nature. Part of said historic nature is the fact that it is the only example of Morgan's domestic architecture in
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