Storming the old boys' citadel
Subtitle: two pioneer women architects of nineteenth century North America
By: Carla Blank and Tania Martin
Contributors: Martin, Tania, author
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781771860130
Subjects: Women architects; Architecture; History
Description: This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, a Sister of Providence--born Esther Pariseau, in St. Elzéar, Quebec--is credited with works built in the present states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, northern Oregon, and in the province of British Columbia. For her contributions, Mother Joseph was honored by the State of Washington as one of two people to represent it in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, DC. Louise Blanchard Bethune designed and built works in the Buffalo, New York area. Storming the Old Boys' Citadel follows the evolving histories of two Revival-styled multiuse public buildings considered to be these women's major works. Listed on the United States' National Register of Historic Places, they have both continued to function, with extensive additions and other changes made to each architect's original structure, for the communities where their architects lived.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227).
Table of contents: title: Part I: The Sister with a Hammer. An Architect Named Joseph; title: An "Enterprising Nun"; title: A Heartful Vocation; title: Holy Trinity of Settlement; title: Providence Faubourg; title: Move to Higher Ground; title: Providence House Vancouver; title: A Brickworks is Born in Vancouver; title: From House of Providence to Providence Academy; title: Providence Academy for Sale; title: Salvation of the Building; title: Mother Joseph Goes to DC, a Landmark is Designated; title: Restoration of the Chapel; title: The Academy for Sale; title: Mother Joseph's Signature Building; title: Holy Trinity of Development; title: A Bridge Across Time, and Interstate 5; title: Part II: Saving a Grand Old Lady. Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856; title: 1913); title: The Sources of Buffalo's Heyday The Making of an Architect; title: How Buffalo Became an Architectural Museum; title: The Architectural Practice of Louise Blanchard Bethune; title: Pioneering Feats; title: Searching Bethune's Buildings; title: The Business of a Dedicated Professional Woman; title: Private Life; title: The Closing Days; title: Bethune's Signature Legacy: The Lafayette Hotel; title: The Lafayette's Neighbors; title: "The Russians want to be French" says Nina L. Khruscheva. So do Americans!; title: A President is Gunned Down; title: Construction History: Putting the Pieces Together; title: The Hotel's Gilded Grand Opening; title: Doubling the Footprint; title: Prelude of Changes to Come; title: The Founding Families; title: From A Residence of Presidents to a Crack House; title: Rescuing the Fallen Lady and Other Buffalo Architectural Gems; title: The Nineteenth-Century Luxury Hotel as a Model for Modern Living; title: The Lafayette Hotel's 43-Million-Dollar Restoration; title: Creating a Place in the Historical Record.