Theodate Pope Riddle
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Theodate Pope Riddle (1867- August 30, 1946) was a well-known American architect.
Born in Salem, Ohio, she was a graduate of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. She designed the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington and designed and founded the famous Avon Old Farms School in Avon. Among her other well known architectural commissions was the 1920 reconstruction of the birthplace in New York City of former President Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodate Pope Riddle was a member of the Architectural League of New York, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Mediaeval Academy of America.
In May of 1915, she survived the torpedoing of the Lusitania.
She died in 1946 at her home in Farmington.
In 2003, University of Hartford professor Sandra L. Katz told her story in her book: "Dearest of Geniuses: A Life of Theodate Pope Riddle."