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16 Apr 08 - This is the start of a site to collect photos and information about the North Star House in Grass Valley California, designed for the Foote family by Julia Morgan.
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About North Star Foundation
The North Star Foundation is a citizen's organization formed to assist in the restoration of the North Star House, located in Grass Valley California at the old North Star Mine site.
The North Star was one of California's richest gold mines in operation at the turn of the century. On the site are many historic buildings and remains from the mining days. Our focus is the Arts & Crafts style house designed by Julia Morgan called the North Star House.
This site contains a collection of photographs of the North Star House and related gold mining activities. Some of the photographs were scanned from original negatives (provided by the Evelyn Foote Gardner). These photos are the property of the Foote family and not for resale or unauthorized use. These photos where take by A.D. Foot and A.B. Foote starting from about 1904 through the 1950's.
The North Star House was designed in 1905 by Julia Morgan for Arthur deWindt Foote, manager of the North Star Mine from 1895 to 1913, and his wife, Mary Hallock Foote, a noted 19th century author and illustrator. Morgan had begun her career as California's first female licensed architect in 1904 with an office in San Francisco.
One of Morgan's first significant domestic commissions in the (Arts and Crafts) style was a house built in 1905 for Arthur de Windt Foote, manager of the North Star Mine in the gold country near Grass Valley. The Foote house is one of a series in which Morgan worked out ways to integrate geometric forms and simple local materials into a sense of natural wholeness that is as fresh after eighty years as it was during construction.
Julia Morgan's career lasted until her retirement in 1951 and included the design and construction of over 700 buildings, including the W.R. Hearst properties of San Simeon in San Luis Obispo County and Wyntoon near Mt. Shasta, Asilomar in Pacific Grove, and numerous buildings on the campus of U.C. Berkeley.
http://www.northstarhouse.org
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- Screenshots / Screencasts
- Illustration/Art / Animation/CGI
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