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Pioneering Wom
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of American Architecture
Edited by Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner
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Alice Constance Austin
Florence Knoll Bassett
podcast
Sophia Gregoria Hayden Bennett
Louise Blanchard Bethune
Georgia Louise Harris Brown
Jane West Clauss
Elisabeth Coit
new
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
Natalie Griffin de Blois
podcast
Ray Kaiser Eames
podcast
Jean Bodman Fletcher
Ethel Madison Bailey Carter Furman
new
Mary Nevan Gannon
Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni
Beverly Lorraine Greene
Marion Mahony Griffin
Alice J. Hands
Sarah Pillsbury Harkness
new
Lois Lilley Howe
Ada Louise Huxtable
podcast
Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler
Anna Wagner Keichline
podcast
Susan Abel Maxman
Amaza Lee Meredith
new
podcast
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
Julia Morgan
podcast
Nelle Elizabeth Peters
Theodate Pope Riddle
Eleanor Raymond
Lilian J. Rice
Lutah Maria Riggs
Isabel Roberts
Verna Cook Salomonsky Shipway
Norma Merrick Sklarek
podcast
Chloethiel Woodard Smith
Patricia Weston Swan
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Beverly Ann Willis
1850
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1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
1851
1934
Louise Blanchard Bethune
1856
1913
Alice Constance Austin
1862
1955
Lois Lilley Howe
1864
1964
Theodate Pope Riddle
1867
1946
Mary Nevan Gannon
1867
1932
Sophia Gregoria Hayden Bennett
1868
1953
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
1869
1958
Marion Mahony Griffin
1871
1961
Isabel Roberts
1871
1955
Julia Morgan
1872
1957
Alice J. Hands
1874
1971
Nelle Elizabeth Peters
1884
1974
Eleanor Raymond
1887
1989
Anna Wagner Keichline
1889
1943
Lilian J. Rice
1889
1938
Verna Cook Salomonsky Shipway
1890
1978
Elisabeth Coit
1892
1987
Ethel Madison Bailey Carter Furman
1893
1976
Amaza Lee Meredith
1895
1984
Lutah Maria Riggs
1896
1984
Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni
1899
1978
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
1903
1971
Jane West Clauss
1907
2003
Chloethiel Woodard Smith
1910
1992
Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler
1911
1998
Ray Kaiser Eames
1912
1988
Sarah Pillsbury Harkness
1914
2013
Jean Bodman Fletcher
1915
1965
Beverly Lorraine Greene
1915
1957
Florence Knoll Bassett
1917
2019
Georgia Louise Harris Brown
1918
1999
Ada Louise Huxtable
1921
2013
Natalie Griffin de Blois
1921
2013
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
1923
2022
Patricia Weston Swan
1924
2012
Norma Merrick Sklarek
1926
2012
Beverly Ann Willis
1928
2023
Susan Abel Maxman
1938
Alice Constance Austin
Axonometric drawing of two houses showing underground tunnels from Austin,
The Next Step
(1935)
Florence Knoll Bassett
Suspended Vanity 329-1, 1960–73, and 62 Ottoman
Sophia Gregoria Hayden Bennett
Sophia Hayden, Elevation Drawing
Louise Blanchard Bethune
Lafayette Square, 1905
Georgia Louise Harris Brown
Kodak factory, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, 1971
Jane West Clauss
Alfred and Jane West Clauss, Clauss Residence II (Redwood House), Little Switzerland, Knoxville, Tenn., 1943
Elisabeth Coit
Elisabeth Coit, sketch from “Architecture as a Profession for Women,”
Radcliffe Quarterly
, May 1936
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
Desert View Watchtower, Grand Canyon, 1933
Natalie Griffin de Blois
Pepsi-Cola Headquarters, 1960, New York City
Ray Kaiser Eames
Living room in the Eames House, Pacific Palisades, California, 1958
Jean Bodman Fletcher
Jean Fletcher's Fletcher House, Six Moon Hill, Lexington, Mass.
Ethel Madison Bailey Carter Furman
Mount Nebo Baptist Church, Barnhamsville
Mary Nevan Gannon
A Cottage, newspaper sketch.
San Francisco Call
, May 24, 1986, 27
Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni
Café-Restaurant at the Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1934
Beverly Lorraine Greene
Chicago Housing Authority, Ida B. Wells Homes, Chicago, 1939–41
Marion Mahony Griffin
Capitol Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, 1924
Alice J. Hands
Portrait of Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins and Her Office, 1895
Sarah Pillsbury Harkness
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn., 1967–71
Lois Lilley Howe
Lois Lilley Howe's James Morgan House
Ada Louise Huxtable
The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion,
1997, cover of 2nd edition
Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler
“Building with Wood” exhibition, MOMA, 1944
Anna Wagner Keichline
Building Block, #1,653,771 A, filed March 16, 1926, issued December 27, 1927
Susan Abel Maxman
Courtyard of Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse, Monroe, Mich., 2003
Amaza Lee Meredith
Azurest South, Ettrick (Petersburg)
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
Fortress La Ferière, Haiti, published in Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s
Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture
, 1957, 69
Julia Morgan
Hearst Castle, San Simeon, Calif., 1931
Nelle Elizabeth Peters
Ambassador Hotel and Apartments, Kansas City, 1924–25
Theodate Pope Riddle
“Hill-Stead” the Alfred Pope house (now Hill-Stead Museum), Farmington, Conn., 1898–07
Eleanor Raymond
Eleanor Raymond's "Rachael Raymond House", Belmont, Mass.
Lilian J. Rice
Garage Block, Paseo Delicias, Civic Center, Rancho Santa Fe, 1922–23
Lutah Maria Riggs
Riggs and Shaw, Alice Erving House, Montecito, Calif., 1949–51
Isabel Roberts
First Presbyterian Church of St. Cloud, Fla., 1924, demolished 1966
Verna Cook Salomonsky Shipway
Verna Cook Salomonsky, “Ideal House” for House and Garden magazine,” July 1935
Norma Merrick Sklarek
Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, 1978
Chloethiel Woodard Smith
Week-end House for Colonel and Mrs. Julius Wadsworth, Fairfax, Va., 1952
Patricia Weston Swan
Denver National Bank Building, Denver, 1981
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
Foot Bridge in Bowring Park, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, 1959
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
English Cathedrals
(New York: The Century Co., 1892).
Beverly Ann Willis
San Francisco Ballet Building, Main Entrance on Franklin Street at Fulton Street, San Francisco, 1983
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