Anna Pendleton Schenck (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Anna Pendleton Schenck
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18654
Call Number: LC-B2- 3413-15
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pennylrichardsca (7 months ago | reply)
Anna Pendleton Schenck (d. 1915) was an architect in New York; she and Marcia Mead founded an architecture firm together just a few years before Schenck's passing. The New York Times snarked in its headline that "GIRL ARCHITECTS ORGANIZE A FIRM....Houses They Design Will Have Plenty of Closets."
In March 1915, Schenck & Mead won a design competition sponsored by the City Club of Chicago, with their plans for a neighborhood center in the Bronx. Later that year, Miss Schenck died from pneumonia at New York Hospital, age 41. Her obituary says she was born in Brooklyn, daughter of Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck (1825-1885), rector at St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn; that she was one of the first women to earn a degree at Columbia University; and that she studied architecture in Paris, under Aubretin.
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