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APRIL 18, 1906: A 7.9 earthquake struck off the San Francisco coast and my great-grandmother would remember looking into “the Gates of Hell”.

APRIL 18, 1906: A 7.9 earthquake struck off the San Francisco coast and my great-grandmother would remember looking into “the Gates of Hell”.

UPDATED 4/18/2023 Incorporated in 1850, by 1900 San Francisco had entered its Gilded Age. There was a park bigger than the one in New York…

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JANUARY 20, 1872: Julia Morgan, who would become the leading female architect of her time, was born in San Francisco.

JANUARY 20, 1872: Julia Morgan, who would become the leading female architect of her time, was born in San Francisco.

Julia Morgan was born the second of five children to a wealthy family in Oakland. She studied engineering at UC Berkeley (there was no architectural…

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