page_title: Theodate Pope Riddle
section_title: Selected Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Theodate Pope Riddle / Selected Buildings
caption_attribution_description: Avon Old Farms School, Avon, Connecticut, USA - exterior view. Architect Theodate Pope Riddle; school founded 1927.
context_page_description: Theodate Pope Riddle was an American architect and philanthropist. She was one of the first American women architects as well as a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
context_section_description: 1898–1907: Alfred Pope House, Hill-Stead, Farmington, CT (with McKim, Mead and White)
  1906–1909: Westover School, Middlebury, CT
  1911–1914: Joseph P. Chamberlain Estate, Highfield, Middlebury, CT
  1913–1914: Mrs. Charles O. Gates Estate, Dormer House, Locust Valley, Long Island, NY
  1914–1915: Hop Brook Elementary School, Naugatuck, CT
  1915: Worker's Housing, Farmington, CT
  1918–1927: Avon Old Farms School, Avon, CT
  1919–1922: Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (reconstruction, interior restoration, design of adjacent building) New York, NY
  Her papers are archived at Hill-Stead Museum, Avon Old Farms School and the Westover School Archives.
caption: Avon Old Farms School
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