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Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Edited by Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner

  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sponsors
  • Alphabetical
  • Chronological
  • Pictorial
  • Alice Constance Austin
  • Florence Knoll Bassett
  • Louise Blanchard Bethune
  • Georgia Louise Harris Brown
  • Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
  • Natalie Griffin de Blois
  • Ray Kaiser Eames
  • Mary Nevan Gannon
  • Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni
  • Marion Mahony Griffin
  • Alice J. Hands
  • Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Anna Wagner Keichline
  • Susan Abel Maxman
  • Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
  • Theodate Pope Riddle
  • Lilian J. Rice
  • Isabel Roberts
  • Norma Merrick Sklarek
  • Cloethiel Woodard Smith
  • Patricia Weston Swan
  • Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
  • Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
  • Beverly Ann Willis
  • 1850
  • 1860
  • 1870
  • 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
  • Theodate Pope Riddle
    1867 1946
  • Mary Nevan Gannon
    1867 1932
  • Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter
    1869 1958
  • Marion Mahony Griffin
    1871 1961
  • Isabel Roberts
    1871 1955
  • Alice J. Hands
    1874 1971
  • Anna Wagner Keichline
    1889 1943
  • Lilian J. Rice
    1889 1938
  • Elsa Mandelstamm Gidoni
    1899 1978
  • Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
    1903 1971
  • Cloethiel Woodard Smith
    1910 1992
  • Ray Kaiser Eames
    1912 1988
  • Florence Knoll Bassett
    1917
  • Georgia Louise Harris Brown
    1918 1999
  • Ada Louise Huxtable
    1921 2013
  • Natalie Griffin de Blois
    1921 2013
  • Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
    1923
  • Patricia Weston Swan
    1924 2012
  • Norma Merrick Sklarek
    1926 2012
  • Beverly Ann Willis
    1928
  • 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
  • Louise Blanchard Bethune Lafayette Square, 1905
  • Georgia Louise Harris Brown Kodak factory, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, 1971
  • 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
  • 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
  • Marion Mahony Griffin Capitol Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, 1924
  • Alice J. Hands Portrait of Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins and Her Office, 1895
  • Ada Louise Huxtable The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion, 1997, cover of 2nd edition
  • 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
  • Sibyl Moholy-Nagy Fortress La Ferière, Haiti, published in Sibyl Moholy-Nagy’s Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture, 1957, 69
  • Theodate Pope Riddle “Hill-Stead” the Alfred Pope house (now Hill-Stead Museum), Farmington, Conn., 1898–07
  • Lilian J. Rice Garage Block, Paseo Delicias, Civic Center, Rancho Santa Fe, 1922–23
  • Isabel Roberts First Presbyterian Church of St. Cloud, Fla., 1924, demolished 1966
  • Norma Merrick Sklarek Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, 1978
  • Cloethiel 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

Edited by Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner

Credits

© 2026 Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

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Edited by Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner

Credits

© 2026 Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation