American Architect and Engineer. She is best remembered for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Born into a wealthy family. she was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, France. Upon her return from Paris, she took employment with the San Francisco architect John Galen Howard who was at that time supervising the University of California (UC) Master Plan. She worked on several buildings on the UC Berkeley campus, most notably providing the decorative elements for the Hearst Mining Building, and designs for the Hearst Greek Theatre. In 1904, she opened her own office in San Francisco and one of her earliest works from this period was North Star House in Grass Valley, California, commissioned in 1906 by mining engineer Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, the author and illustrator, Mary Hallock Foote. The most famous of her patrons was the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. In 1919 Hearst selected Morgan as the architect for La Cuesta Encantada, better known as Hearst Castle, which was built atop the family campsite overlooking San Simeon harbor. The project proved to be her largest and most complex, as Hearst's vision for his estate grew ever grander during planning and construction. From this point forward, Morgan became Hearst's principal architect, producing the designs for dozens of buildings, such as Wyntoon (a second castle plus "Bavarian village" of four villas located on 50,000 acres of forest on the McCloud River near Mount Shasta), Jolon (a "hunting lodge" built in a Mission Style about thirty miles from the Castle), and Babicora, Hearst's Mexican rancho. Throughout her long career, she designed multiple buildings for institutions serving women and girls. Her best-known works not commissioned by Hearst include the YWCAs in San Francisco's Chinatown, Oakland, and Riverside, the latter of which is now the Riverside Art Museum, as well as a World War I YWCA Hostess House in Palo Alto which has been the site of MacArthur Park restaurant since 1981, the Mills College Bell Tower, St. John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, and the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove near Monterey, California. Over the course of her life, she designed more than 700 buildings in California. In May 1929, she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of California, Berkeley, one of the few awards that she publicly accepted. She died at the age of 85. In 2008 she was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and in 2014 she was posthumously awarded the American Institute of Architect's gold medal and became the first female architect to receive this honor.