Background
Louis O. Mullgardt was born in 1866 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Louis O. Mullgardt was born in 1866 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
After an early education in public and private schools, he moved to St. Louis, where he studied architecture in the offices of local practitioners, also attended Washington University as a student in the Department of Fine Arts.
Beginning professional practice with an office in St. Louis in 1893, he carried on work till - 1902 he went to England for an extended stay, and following his return practiced in San Francisco the rest of his life except for an interval between 1920 and 1922 when he was in Honolulu, Hawaii.
A versatile designer, Mr. Mullgardt’s work comprised varied types of build¬ings, such as the Commercial Center and Davis Building in Honolulu; University Club in St. Louis; Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., the President's residence at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., and in San Francisco c and the Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park. He also designed numerous private residences in different locations on the Pacific coast.
As an author he contributed many architectural articles to magazines. For many years he made his home at the bohemian Club in San Francisco.
He was a member of the Architectural Commission and the International 1914-15 Exposition, and at one time served as Architectural Advisor on National Parks for the Pacific Coast. Elected to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 1894, Mr. Mullgardt maintained his membership in the A. I. A. until the early 1930’s, also he was a past-president of the old oan Francisco Society of Architects.