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Start Over Date range 1948 Subjects International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)

Mary Anne Shephard Manuscript 0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder

Shephard, Mary Anne
The Mary Anne Shephard Manuscript is a manuscript by Mary Anne Shephard, created in 1847, that details gothic architecture through desrptions and drawings, with an additional focus on churches and ministers. The majority of the Manuscript was written in 1847, but there are dates written that reach 1850. There is a date in the front of the manuscript marked 1950, possibly by a previous owner, and a date marked 2016, possibly to mark the purchase of the manuscript.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mary Brown Channel Architectural Collection 11 Cubic Feet 10 boxes and 36 oversize folders

Channel, Mary Brown, 1907-2006
After graduating from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1929, Mary Ramsay Brown Channel earned her degree in architecture at Cornell University in 1933. She returned to her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia, and worked at a firm for two years before opening her own office as the first registered woman architect in Virginia. She became known for her residential and church designs. Her collection includes sketches and drawings for about 160 mostly residential projects in the Portsmouth area. Also included are some college drawings and projects.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Milka T. Bliznakov Papers and Architectural Drawings 32.82 Cubic Feet 37 boxes; 8 oversize; 4 artifacts

Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010
Milka Bliznakov was a Bulgarian architect, architectural historian, and professor who practiced in Bulgaria, France, and the United States. The collection consists of her publications, research, correspondence, professional documentation of her practice, conference participation materials, teaching materials, and documents related to her involvement as the founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Natalie de Blois Architectural Collection 2.7 Cubic Feet 2 boxes and 7 oversize folders

De Blois, Natalie, 1921-2013
The Natalie de Blois Architectural Collection includes correspondence; original notes; magazine/journal clippings; finished project photographs, published materials; sketches; water colors; and project records related to a sampling of de Blois' architectural projects.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Olive Chadeayne Architectural Collection 9.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes; 28 oversize folders

Chadeayne, Olive, 1904-2001
The Olive Chadeayne Architectural Collection includes drawings for residences, schools, churches and businesses primarily located in southern California. In addition to Olive Chadeayne's work, the collection also contains over twenty-five drawings by American architect Lillian Rice.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Rebecca Wood Watkin Architectural Drawings 6.6 Cubic Feet 2 boxes, 14 oversize folders

Watkin, Rebecca Wood, 1913-2010
Rebecca Wood Watkin was born in 1913 in Portland, Oregon. She earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1933, and a B. Arch. from the Architecture School of the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to the west coast, and worked in other architects' offices during the 1930s and 1940s. She earned her California Architectural license in 1944 and opened her own practice in 1951. The collection consists of architectural drawings of remodelings, alterations, additions, and new designs of buildings, mostly residences, that Watkin worked on from 1940 to 1989.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Sally Waldner Bould Stan Architectural Collection 2 Cubic Feet 5 folders of 42x30 inches and one folder of 14.75x9.5 inches

Stan, Sally Waldner Bould, b.1917
This collection documents the architect Sally Waldner Bould Stan. She lived from 1917 to 2008, spending most of her life in Lafayette, California. Over the course of her life, Sally designed around 2000 homes as well as numerous notable commercial projects before retiring in 1998. Her collection is comprised of biographical notes as well as drawings for 55 of her professional projects. One standard and five oversized folders.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Susana Torre Architectural Collection 26.4 Cubic Feet 23 boxes, 28 oversize folders, 3 framed drawings, and 1 model

Torre, Susana, 1944-
After earning her degree in architecture in Buenos Aires, Argentinean Susana Torre arrived in New York in 1968 to study and practice architecture. Women's place in architecture and renovation of buildings are topics of particular interest to her. The Susana Torre collection consists of professional correspondence, project files, architectural drawings and sketches of some of her works, research notes, published articles about and by Torre, and teaching notes.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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