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oapen-20.500.12657-615902024-03-27T14:14:35Z Louise Blanchard Bethune Hayes McAlonie, Kelly Architectural History, Architecture,New York/Regional,Women's Studies,General Interest thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general As America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life and her firm, Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs, scholars have struggled to provide a complete picture of this trailblazer. Using a newly discovered archival source of photographs, architectural drawings, and personal documents, Kelly Hayes McAlonie paints a picture of Bethune never before seen. Born in 1856 in Waterloo and raised in Buffalo, New York, Bethune wanted to be an architect from childhood. In fulfilling her dream, she challenged the nation to reconsider what a woman could do. A bicycle-riding advocate for coeducation, Bethune believed in women's emancipation through equal pay for equal work. This belief would be tested during the design competition for the Woman's Building for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, where female entrants were not paid for their work. Bethune refused to participate on principle, but nonetheless her career thrived, culminating in the most important commission of her life, Buffalo's Hotel Lafayette. A comprehensive biography of the first professional woman architect in the United States, who was also the first woman to be admitted to the American Institute of Architects, this book serves as an important addition to New York and architectural history. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the State University of New York and the University at Buffalo Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at:<a href=https://www.openmonographs.org/"> https://www.openmonographs.org/</a>. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at <a href="https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8382"> https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8382</a>. 2023-03-01T09:06:29Z 2023-03-01T09:06:29Z 2023 book 9781438492872 9781438492889 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61590 eng SUNY Press Open Access application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781438492896.epub https://sunypress.edu/isbn/9781438492872 State University of New York Press Excelsior Editions a2a9134f-451a-49c3-9b5f-a060536b7cf7 4f9ec833-6d02-478f-886f-4fb26ccfbe96 9781438492872 9781438492889 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) Excelsior Editions State University of New York SUNY open access
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As America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life and her firm, Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs, scholars have struggled to provide a complete picture of this trailblazer. Using a newly discovered archival source of photographs, architectural drawings, and personal documents, Kelly Hayes McAlonie paints a picture of Bethune never before seen. Born in 1856 in Waterloo and raised in Buffalo, New York, Bethune wanted to be an architect from childhood. In fulfilling her dream, she challenged the nation to reconsider what a woman could do. A bicycle-riding advocate for coeducation, Bethune believed in women's emancipation through equal pay for equal work. This belief would be tested during the design competition for the Woman's Building for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, where female entrants were not paid for their work. Bethune refused to participate on principle, but nonetheless her career thrived, culminating in the most important commission of her life, Buffalo's Hotel Lafayette. A comprehensive biography of the first professional woman architect in the United States, who was also the first woman to be admitted to the American Institute of Architects, this book serves as an important addition to New York and architectural history. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the State University of New York and the University at Buffalo Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at:<a href=https://www.openmonographs.org/"> https://www.openmonographs.org/</a>. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at <a href="https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8382"> https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8382</a>.
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