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This lovely Julia Morgan craftsman has had an interesting life. The home was originally built at 2819 Garber Street for Alma Galbraith, a Latin teacher at Oakland High School. It is one of Morgan’s earliest surviving commissions having been constructed only a few years after she returned from completing her education at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1902. In 1913 it was home to Walter Steilberg who was Julia Morgan’s chief draftsman for many years and an accomplished designer in his own right. Then in 1920 the home was moved to its current location on Derby.
The house is designed very much in the First Bay Region style championed by Morgan’s mentor Bernard Maybeck. Redwood shingles cloak the exterior while the interior gets a more refined vertical redwood paneling. There is a great inglenook as well as numerous built-ins, divided light windows and inlaid floors – well worth a visit while it is on the market.
