Early East Bay Women Architects - Alameda museum lecture series

Early East Bay Women Architects - Alameda museum lecture series

“Early East Bay Women Architects - Mildred S. Meyers and her Contemporaries” will be presented by Inge Schaefer Horton at the Alameda Museum Thursday, May 31 at 7 pm.  Ms. Horton authored Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951.  Her newest book is a continuation of her of history of women architects in the East Bay.  The Alameda Museum is located at 2324 Alameda Avenue in Alameda.

In the early 20th century women were offered the opportunity to study architecture at the University of California.  Julia Morgan and Mildred S. Meyers were some of the women who took advantage of the opening.  These women became role models for women in architecture.  Julia Morgan is well known for her for prominent clients such as William Randolph Hearst.  Other early pioneering women architects worked on residential to industrial architectural.

Alamedan Mildred S. Meyers is well known for her work with her father Alameda architect Henry H. Meyer and her own work in Alameda and the East Bay.

Meyers House in Alameda

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