Julia Morgan School for Girls

Julia Morgan School for Girls is an all-girls middle school in Oakland, California, named for Julia Morgan, the building's architect and the first woman to be licensed in California as an architect. The school is housed in a historical and architecturally significant building that she designed.[1] The building was constructed in 1924 and was originally used for The Ming Quong Home for Chinese girls, an orphanage. It was purchased and donated to Mills College in 1936 and became known as Graduate House. After 1960, it was known as Alderwood Hall.[2] In 2004, the building was renovated for use as the Julia Morgan School for Girls.[3] The building is located at 5000 MacArthur Boulevard.

From 1925 until 1937, the building was used as an orphanage. After being purchased by Mills College in 1936, it was known mainly as the Graduate House' until 1960. Later it was used as a conference area, for classrooms, and as a residence hall until 2004. In 2004, it was leased to Julia Morgan School for Girls.[1] Morgan designed many of the buildings on the Mills College campus.

  1. ^ a b Alderwood Hall Council of Independent Colleges; Historic Campus Architecture Project
  2. ^ Mills College 2007/2008 Undergraduate Student Handbook (PDF). School Datebooks. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
  3. ^ Ito, Susan (Winter 2004). "Julia Morgan at Mills" (PDF). Mills Quarterly. Mills College. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 2, 2006. Retrieved 2008-02-27.