Raymond, Eleanor

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Eleanor Raymond was born in 1888 in Cambridge, MA, and following her graduation from Wellesley College, enrolled in the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (whose faculty was largely drawn from the faculty of Harvard’s School of Architecture). Upon her graduation in 1919, Raymond joined Henry Atherton Frost: the beginning of a professional career that was to span some sixty years of practice. Raymond’s prime interest was in residential housing: she designed one of the first International Style houses in the United States in 1931, and she was deeply interested in innovative materials and building systems (designing a Plywood House in 1940 and in 1948, the “Sun House,” one of the first successful solar-heated buildings in the Northeast). Eleanor Raymond was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1961.

From the guide to the Eleanor Raymond Collection., (Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)

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Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Cole, Doris. Eleanor Raymond, architect / by Doris Cole. Harvard University, Frances Loeb Library
referencedIn Wauregan and Quinebaug Company., 1795-1979. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
referencedIn Beacon Hill Garden Club. Minute book and scrapbooks, 1928-1959. Boston Athenaeum
creatorOf Eleanor Raymond Collection. Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
creatorOf Raymond, Eleanor. Eleanor Raymond Collection. Harvard University, Frances Loeb Library
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associatedWith Beacon Hill Garden Club. corporateBody
associatedWith Cole, Doris. person
associatedWith Frances L. Loeb Library. corporateBody
associatedWith Quinebaug Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Wauregan Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Wauregan Mills. corporateBody
associatedWith Wauregan-Quinebaug Company. corporateBody
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United States
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Women architects
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Birth 1887-03-24

Death 1989-07-04

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