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Theodate Pope Riddle
American architect
Theodate Pope Riddle (February 2, 1867 – August 30, 1946) was an American architect and philanthropist.
She was one of the first American women architects and a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
Life
Born Effie Brooks Pope in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the only child of industrialist and art collector Alfred Atmore Pope and his wife Ada Lunette Brooks and was a first cousin to Louisa Pope, the future mother of architect Philip Johnson.
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When Effie was 19, she changed her name to Theodate in honor of her grandmother Theodate Stackpole. She graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and later hired faculty members to tutor her privately in architecture.
The first woman to become a licensed architect in New York and the sixth woman to be licensed in Connecticut, in 1926, she was appointed a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.[1]
She designed Hill-Stead, the family estate (now