YWCA--Interior

Julia Morgan
1913-15

The central courtyard and second-floor hallway surrounding it The center of the building features a brightly-lit atrium. According to Boutelle, it was "modeled on the outdoor courtyard of Donato Bramante's church of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome" (97).
Square and round columns alternate on the second floor, the square columns repeating the piers of the first floor. Biblical quotations are located on the frieze.
The Assembly Room
The inner wall of the Assembly Room echoes the window treatment of the opposite wall. Decorative foliate brackets and boxed beams add to the elegance of the room.

Click here to return to exterior views of the Oakland YWCA.


Work Cited: Boutelle, Sara Holmes. Julia Morgan Architect. Revised and updated edition. New York: Abbeville Press, 1995.

Click here to return to Julia Morgan Table of Contents.

Click here to return to Women Architects Table of Contents.

Click here to return to Home Page (Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from Classical Greek to Post-Modern).