Saving a Grand Old Lady
Part I
From: Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel
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Part one of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession during the twentieth century. This chapter focuses on Bethune’s home of Buffalo, New York, examining the history of the region during the mid to late nineteenth century and how it influenced Bethune from her birth in 1856 and shaped the direction of her early life and career.
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Contributors
Carla Blank
Carla Blank is the author of Live On Stage! and Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America, 1900–2000. Her articles have appeared in El Pais, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, Green Magazine, Hungry Mind Review,Counterpunch, and Konch. She lives in Oakland, California.
Tania Martin
Tania Martin is a professor at the Université Laval School of Architecture in Québec City where she has held the Canada Research Chair in Built Religious Heritage since 2005. She has published essays in scholarly journals on architectural history and North American religious institutional structures. She lives in Québec City.
