(b Salem, OR, 1868; d Farmington, CT, 30 Aug 1946). Architect, daughter of (1) Alfred Atmore Pope. She was privately tutored in architecture at the College of New Jersey from 1886 and became notable as the first woman architect in the USA. She designed her family home, Hill-Stead (1898–1901), in Farmington, CT, in cooperation with the architect Stanford White. In 1907 she was commissioned by her teacher Mary Hilliard to design the main school building of Westover School for Girls, Middlebury, CT. In this building (completed 1912) she included such innovative facilities as the first all-electric institutional kitchen with a built-in vacuum system. Other projects included the Joseph P. Chamberlain Estate (1915), Middlebury, CT, and three double cottages as workers’ housing in Farmington (1916). Her most celebrated work was Avon Farms at Farmington, a prep school for boys comprising 25 ivy-covered buildings in the style of English rural architecture.

Part of the Pope family