El Campanil History At Mills College Too Julia Morgan's Commencement Commission

The hoodline website offers an interesting ship yesteryear Will Callan, "Julia Morgan-designed Mills bell tower counts downwards to its 115th anniversary," with the history of El Campanil, the 72-foot campus bell tower at Mills College...believed to hold upwards the kickoff freestanding bell tower on a U.S.A. college campus.

The tower was designed yesteryear Julia Morgan, the sole adult woman inwards her college shape at U.C. Berkeley to earn a civil technology scientific discipline score together with the kickoff adult woman licensed to practise architecture inwards California. The tower was Morgan's kickoff committee inwards 1903 together with she was innovative inwards using reinforced concrete for the structure. The tower was completed inwards Apr 1904 together with it was ane of the few structures to withstand the groovy 1906 earthquake...and, it helped launch Morgan's career.

Callan too explores the determination of Susan Mills, co-founder of the women’s college. She together with her married adult man Cyrus, old missionaries, had purchased the old women's seminary inwards 1865, moving it to Oakland vi years later.  Historian Karen McNeill noted that the college's before reputation had followed it to its novel domicile together with Mills was eager "make a statement" together with milk tremble her institution’s “finishing-school past." 

Mills College too offers an well clip from KQED's Forum where y'all tin move psyche to host Dave Iverson speaking amongst historian Karen McNeill together with architect together with attorney Julia Donoho most the Julia Morgan’s legacy inwards the Bay Area, including her groundbreaking move designing El Campanil.

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