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Updated: May 3, 2025
The architect, Louis Christian Mullgardt, has caught the feeling of the South, not the rank, jungle South of the tropics; nor the mild, rich South of our own Gulf states; but the hard, brilliant, arid South of the desert. This court expresses Arizona, New Mexico, Spain, Algiers, lands of the Sun. The very flowers of its first gardens were desert blooms, brilliant in hue, on leafless stalks.
The court is illuminated at night by concealed light thrown on the walls from reflectors in the forms of interesting green shells resting on shapely standards. Court of Ages The Tower by Night Illumination The Court of Ages was designed by Louis Christian Mullgardt of San Francisco.
However, this is Aitken, not Mullgardt. The allegories of the group are detailed in the chapter on Fountains. The Court of the Seasons A charming bit of Italian Renaissance Its quiet simplicity The alcove Fountains of the Seasons, by Furio Piccirilli Milton Bancroft's Murals The forecourt, with Evelyn Longman's Fountain of Ceres Inscriptions.
Often he merely re-echoes or he actually reproduces something that he is fond of or that has happened to catch his fancy. The chances are that Mullgardt will go down into history for his daring here. It isn't often that a man takes a big biological conception and works it out in architecture with such picturesqueness.
These figures alone, unless we add the florid ladies of the ornamental shafts, with the rich filigree of the arcades and the tower, are all that express in any way the idea of Abundance carried in the present name of the court. Mullgardt conceived this court as a sermon in stone. Its significance as a whole is best explained by the architect himself.
It is a place for dreams. The architecture has been called Spanish Gothic, but, according to the architect, it "has not been accredited to any established style." We may well be content to call it simply Mullgardt. The court is an artist's dream, rather than a formal study in historic architecture; and it is the more interesting, as it is the more original, for that.
But, in his studio, Brangwyn could not have taken anything like accurate measurements." "Perhaps he painted them out of doors," the architect suggested. "I believe the explanation is that he thought them all out and he saw them in their places. From Mr. Mullgardt he had probably received a complete account, with drawings, of just what the court was going to be like.
The following architects accepted places on the commission: McKim, Mead and White, Henry Bacon, and Thomas Hastings of New York; Robert Farquhar of Los Angeles; and Louis Christian Mullgardt, George W. Kelham, Willis Polk, William B. Faville, Clarence R. Ward, and Arthur Brown of San Francisco.
Later it gave way to a commission consisting of W. B. Faville, Arthur Brown, George W. Kelham, Louis Christian Mullgardt, and Clarence R. Ward, of San Francisco; Robert Farquhar, of Los Angeles; Carrere & Hastings, McKim, Mead & White, and Henry Bacon, of New York, When it had completed the preliminary plans the board discontinued its meetings and G. W. Kelham was appointed Chief of Architecture.
Its purposeful influence is destined to serve perpetually beneficent cause in the furtherance of unified international humanitarianism after the ephemeral vision of this Phantom Kingdom has vanished. L. C. Mullgardt. Panorama Exposition from Presidio Heights
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