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- catalog abstract "Professional papers are mainly architectural drawings and photographs of Coit's projects, 1925-1972, and her publications on housing, 1935-1969; also extensive correspondence with Greek architect Cleon Crantonellis, 1947-1974, and other correspondence. Personal papers include photographs, clippings, correspondence, verse, sketches, watercolors, and plays for children.".
- catalog contributor b1922180.
- catalog date "1899".
- catalog description "Architect and author, Elisabeth Coit was born in Winchester, Mass. She studied at Radcliffe College, 1909-1911, and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School, 1911-1913, and received her B.S. in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1919. From 1919 to 1929 she was draftsman-designer in the office of Grosvenor Atterbury in New York, and then maintained her own office in New York, 1930-1942. She designed houses, offices, apartments, and planned renovations and alterations. She was the first woman to receive the Langley Award from the American Institute of Architects, 1938-1940, for research on U.S. low-income housing. Coit was architect and technical standards editor for the Federal Public Housing Authority's publication, Public Housing Design, 1942-1947. From 1948 until her retirement in 1962, she was principal planner for the New York City Housing Authority. A prolific writer on housing, in 1955 she was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for literature and public service. After her retirement, she continued to be active as a housing consultant to government and private organizations and beginning in 1968 was editor of the newsletter of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00515".
- catalog description "Elisabeth Coit Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radciffe College.".
- catalog description "Personal papers include photographs, clippings, correspondence, verse, sketches, watercolors, and plays for children.".
- catalog description "Professional papers are mainly architectural drawings and photographs of Coit's projects, 1925-1972, and her publications on housing, 1935-1969; also extensive correspondence with Greek architect Cleon Crantonellis, 1947-1974, and other correspondence.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog extent "4 linear ft.".
- catalog issued "1899".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Modern 20th century Greece.".
- catalog subject "Atterbury, Grosvenor, 1869-1956.".
- catalog subject "Coit, Elisabeth, 1892-1987.".
- catalog subject "Crantonellis, Cleon.".
- catalog subject "Housing.".
- catalog subject "Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni and alumnae.".
- catalog subject "National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. Metropolitan New York Chapter.".
- catalog subject "Radcliffe College Alumni and alumnae.".
- catalog subject "White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.".
- catalog subject "Women architects.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1899-1987 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Architectural drawings. ftamc".
- catalog type "Cartoons (humorous images) aat".
- catalog type "Paintings. ftamc".
- catalog type "Sketches. ftamc".