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Eleanor Larrabee | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 7, 1922 |
| Died | September 27, 1997 New York City |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde |
Eleanor Larrabee (1923-1997) was an American architect practicing in New York City, as an associate in the firm of Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde.
Life and career[edit]
Larrabee was born Eleanor Doermann on October 7, 1922 in New York. She attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University, graduating in 1943. She then attended Columbia University, graduating with a Master of Architecture degree in 1949.[1] She may have attended classes at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in between her Radcliffe graduation and enrollment at Columbia.[2]
In 1955 she joined the firm of architect Charles H. Warner Jr.[1] and was made an associate in his successor firm, Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde, in 1961.[3] She collaborated with founding partner Danforth W. Toan on many of the firm's major projects. She was never made partner in the firm, although Eric J. Pick, also made associate in 1961, was promoted to that level in 1977.[4] She retired from the firm in 1992.[1]
She was a member of the board of trustees of Barnard College from 1976 to 1986.[5]
Personal life[edit]
Larrabee was married to editor and author Eric Larrabee (1922-1990), president of the New York State Council on the Arts from 1970 to 1977.[6]
In 1967 Eleanor and Eric Larrabee purchased the George F. Barton House in Buffalo, New York, upon Eric Larrabee's appointment as a professor at the University at Buffalo. They were responsible for its restoration, and maintained it as a second residence until 1994, when she sold it.
Larrabee was struck by a car in New York on September 13, 1997. She died of her injuries on September 27.[1]
At the time of her death, her brother noted that she had suffered "considerable discrimination" in the pursuit of her profession, one dominated by men.[2]
Projects[edit]
Those Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde projects of which she is known to have co-designed include:
- Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Douglass Residential College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1961)[7]
- Clemens Library, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota (1985-86)[10]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Larrabee, Eleanor Doermann," New York Times, September 30 1997.
- ^ a b "Architect Eleanor Larrabee dies in New York at 74," Harvard Crimson, October 2 1997.
- ^ "Notices," Progressive Architecture 42, no. 10 (October 1961): 222.
- ^ "Notices," Progressive Architecture 58, no. 9 (September 1977): 148.
- ^ "Eleanor Doermann Larrabee," Barnard (Winter 1998): 54.
- ^ "Eric Larrabee, 68, Editor, Author, Teacher and Arts Advocate, Dies," New York Times, December 5 1990.
- ^ Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth and Fernanda Perrone, The Douglass Century: Transformation of the Women's College at Rutgers University (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018)
- ^ William McKenzie Woodward and Edward F. Sanderson, Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources, ed. David Chase (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986)
- ^ Ellsworth Mason, Mason on Library Buildings (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1980)
- ^ Clemens Library