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Thirty extant works designed by Julia Morgan between 1906 and 1937 survive to this day in San Francisco. The earliest works by Morgan in the City include a handful of residential designs and a nearly equal number of institutional commissions, including two in Chinatown on behalf of eleemosynary institutions. She also undertook the restoration of the fire-gutted Fairmont Hotel and collaborated in the refurbishing of the Merchants' Exchange Building, where she established and maintained her office throughout her astonishingly prolific career. During WWI Morgan's work in San Francisco continued to be about equally divided between public and private projects. The former included a community center, a school, a residence, and club facilities; the latter resulted in equisitely understated homes that studiously eschew all stylistic exhuberance and define the architect's impeccably elegant and deceptively simple version of the First Bay Area Tradition. The work executed in San Francisco during the third decade of the architect's career was predominantly public in nature and carried out on behalf of charitable organizations, including the YWCA, the Native Daughters of the Golden West, and the Ladies Protection and Relief Society.
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