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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Bernard Maybeck was born February 7, 1862. When he was nineteen he went to France and eventually graduated Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1886 with a degree in architecture. He returned to the U.S., working in New york, Greenwich, Connecticut and Kansas City. He and his bride moved in San francisco in 1890 where he worked for a custom furniture company as a designer and salesman.
In 1893 he contributed designs for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition. In the 1890's he moved to Berkeley, started teaching at the University of California and designed many of its buildings on that campus.There are many fine homes and public buildings designed and built in the San Francisco area as well as other areas of the country. Many Maybeck-built homeowners, architectural firms and teachers have formed a special interest group that meets quarterly to tour homes. Nationally, Maybeck is most well known for his design of the Palace of Fine Arts for the1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Bernard Maybeck and his family often summered at Glen Alpine Springs. E.G.Galt, the new owner of the resort since 1920, asked Maybeck to design new buildings and facilities for the growing alpine resort. A 1921fire which destroyed several buildings instigated the actual buildings we see today in the resort area -- The Kitchen, Dining Hall, Assembly or Social Hall, and the Bubblestone Building.
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