What is Anna Pendleton Schenck?
[[File:Anna Pendleton Schenck circa 1915.jpg|thumb|Anna Pendleton Schenck circa 1915]] '''Anna Pendleton Schenck''' (January 8, 1874 - April 29, 1915) was an [[architect]].<ref name=obit/><ref>{{cite news |title=Girl Architects Organize A Firm. First of Its Kind, It's Expected to Show That Women Need Only Opportunity |url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50F14FC3D5E13738DDDA10894DB405B848DF1D3 |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=March 8, 1914 |access-date=2014-01-20 }}</ref> She was the [[partnership|business partner]] of [[Marcia Mead]] (1879-1967) and they started the first female architectural firm in [[New York City]] in 1914.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The First American Women Architects |author=[[Sarah Allaback]] |title=Marcia Mead (1879-1967) |year=2008 |isbn=9780252033216 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpY0KmICqKYC&dq=Anna++Schenck&pg=PA135 }}</ref> They were [[wikt:successful|successful]] from the very start. They won the [[City Club of Chicago|City Club prize]] which gave them national [[recognition]].<ref>''The Ohio Architect, Engineer and Builder'', Vol. 26 (July 1915), p. 52</ref> ==Biography== She was born on January 8, 1874 in [[Brooklyn, New York]] to Noah Hunt Schenck and Ann Pierce Pendleton. She attended [[Columbia University]] and was one of the first female graduates.<ref name=obit/> She died on April 29, 1915 at [[New York Hospital]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Miss Anna P. Schenck, Architect, Dies |url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30616F8395B17738DDDA90B94DC405B858DF1D3 |quote=... died yesterday at the New York Hospital in her forty-second year. |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=April 30, 1915 |access-date=2014-01-20 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schenck, Anna Pendleton}} [[Category:1874 births]] [[Category:1915 deaths]] [[Category:Columbia University alumni]] [[Category:American architects]] {{bio-stub}}