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Elisabeth Kendal Thompson
Elisabeth Kendall Thompson was born on July 23, 1910, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her parents were John Smith Kendall and Isoline Rodd. Thompson received a bachelor's degree in Latin and Greek from Tulane University in 1929. She then received a Master of Arts in Spanish and French literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1930. Thompson studied architecture at Tulane until she transferred to University of California at Berkeley. She completed her education in 1934. In 1937 she found employment as a writer and editor for Architectural Record and was there in New York for four years. In 1941 she married a fellow architect Frank Hofmann Thompson. They returned to Berkeley and in 1947 she opened a Berkley and eventually would open a San Francisco branch of Architectural record. Thompson was elected Fellow of the American institute of Architects in 1967. She retired from her position as an editor in 1975. Thompson published two books' Apartments, Townhouses, and Condominiums in 1975 and Houses of the West in 1979. She died after complications from a stroke on March 27, 1998, at the age of eighty-seven.