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Ida Annah Ryan (1873–1950) was a pioneering United States architect known for her work in Massachusetts and Florida.She was the first woman to receive a Master of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first woman to receive a Master's degree in architecture anywhere in the United States.
During the 1950s and 1960s, her home neighborhood of Greenwich Village was being transformed by city and state efforts to build housing (see, for example, Jacobs's 1961 fight to build the West Village Houses in lieu of large apartment houses), private developers, the expansion of New York University, and by the urban renewal plans of Robert Moses.
New York City: Baldwin bought the building in 1965. He lived in apartment B; his mother lived above him in apartment 1B and his sister lived in apartment 4A. Author Toni Morrison lived in the building for a short time. [57] Washington Irving: Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York)
Dan Steinberg/The Associated Press Though Frank Lloyd Wright famously called architecture "the mother art," it might be the one that's been least welcoming to women. When Wright apprentice Eleanor ...
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
The Sherwood Studio Building was an artists' apartment building at 58 West 57th Street, at the southeast corner with Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was constructed in 1879 as artists' apartments. It was demolished in 1960 to permit the construction of a large apartment building called ...
A filmmaker who's chronicled famous homeowners said it can be "like living in a fishbowl." This month, the owners of homes made famous by " Sex and the City " and " Breaking Bad " both said they ...
With the help of the Hull House Women's Club, within a year over 1,000 health department violations were reported to city council and garbage collection reduced death and disease. [ 66 ] Addams had long discussions with philosopher John Dewey in which they redefined democracy in terms of pragmatism and civic activism, with an emphasis more on ...