Anna Pendleton Schenck was born in Brooklyn, NY, the youngest daughter of the late Reverend Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, rector of St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn and his wife, Anna. She studied architecture in New York, one of the first women to receive a diploma from Columbia University, and continued her education in Paris. Just one year prior to her death she had formed a partnership with Marcia Mead, bringing the first firm of women architects to New York City. They designed plans for private homes, model tenements, and communities.. They received the first prize offered by the City Club of Chicago for the best architectural plans for a modern community settlement. The firm also drew the plans for the Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes that weren't erected until the 1950's due to the two World Wars and the Depression. These were homes for the workingmen and their families.
Miss Schenck was a a member of the Women's Cosmopolitan Club in New York.
(Construction News, V. 39, 1915)
Miss Schenck was a a member of the Women's Cosmopolitan Club in New York.
(Construction News, V. 39, 1915)
Anna Pendleton Schenck was born in Brooklyn, NY, the youngest daughter of the late Reverend Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, rector of St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church of Brooklyn and his wife, Anna. She studied architecture in New York, one of the first women to receive a diploma from Columbia University, and continued her education in Paris. Just one year prior to her death she had formed a partnership with Marcia Mead, bringing the first firm of women architects to New York City. They designed plans for private homes, model tenements, and communities.. They received the first prize offered by the City Club of Chicago for the best architectural plans for a modern community settlement. The firm also drew the plans for the Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes that weren't erected until the 1950's due to the two World Wars and the Depression. These were homes for the workingmen and their families.
Miss Schenck was a a member of the Women's Cosmopolitan Club in New York.
(Construction News, V. 39, 1915)
Miss Schenck was a a member of the Women's Cosmopolitan Club in New York.
(Construction News, V. 39, 1915)
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