Landscape Architect
Beatrice Horneman (1952)
Name: Beatrice Horneman
Date of Birth / Location: December 7, 1906 / Iowa
Date of Death / Location: April 28, 1980
Education: Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois.
Date of Death / Location: Chief Planner for the U.S. Public Housing Administration; Landscape Architect for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), mid 1950s-1960s.
Professional Organizations & Activities: Professional Women's Council Western Society of Engineers, late 1940s-early 1950s; Professional Women's Club of Evanston [Illinois].
Iris Ashwell (1952)
Name: Iris Ashwell
Date of Birth / Location: August 16, 1897 / British Columbia, Canada
Date of Death / Location: November 5, 1987 / British Columbia, Canada
Education: University of British Columbia; Iowa State College; Ashwell also studied for two years in England with the urban planner Thomas Mawson.
Date of Death / Location: Chief Land Planner for the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), late 1940s-early 1950s.
Professional Organizations & Activities: Professional Women's Council Western Society of Engineers; American Society of Planning Officials; Professional Women's Club of Evanston, Illinois.
Katherine Brewster with her children Sara and Edward- Courtesy of Chicago History Museum
Name: Katherine (Kate) Lancaster Brewster
Date of Death / Location: September 24, 1947 / Lake Forest, Illinois
Professional Organizations & Activities: Member of the Lake Forest Garden Club; Member of the Garden Club of America; President of the Chicago Public School Art Society
Awards & Honors: Legion of Honor for her work with the Chicago chapter of France Forever.
May Elizabeth "Betty" McAdams, 1922. Courtesy of Gamma Pi Alpha of the University of Illinois bulletin.
Name: May Elizabeth ("Betty") McAdams
Date of Birth / Location: 1881 / in Chicago, Illinois
Date of Death / Location: August of 1967
Education: Attended Armour Institute for one year, 1899 Completed degree in Landscape Architecture University of Illinois, 1916
Date of Death / Location: Worked as Draftsman for Warren Manning from 1916-1917. Worked as a landscape architect in Melbourne, Florida from 1917-1918. Worked as a professor in the landscape architecture department at the University of Illinois from 1918 to 1928. Returned to Chicago and went into private practice 1929, and did landscape architecture in Lake Forest, Illinois at this time. Landscape Architect for the Chicago Park District from 1935 to 1947. Private practice from 1947 to early 1960s. (Her office was in Northbrook, Illinois).
Professional Organizations & Activities: Elected as a Fellow of the ASLA in 1955. Active in the Chicago Society of Landscape Architects and American Society of Landscape Architects.
Mary Long Rogers Headshot, circa 1939.
Name: Mary Long Rogers
Date of Birth / Location: 1904 / St. Louis, Missouri
Education: Degree in Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, 1926
Date of Death / Location: Began working in private practice Metropolis, IL, 1934. Hired as a WPA landscape architect and engineer, 1937. Moved to Chicago, landscape architect for Jane Addams Homes public housing complex, 1938. Became landscape architect for the Southtown planning Commission, 1939. Subconsultant to Gertrude Kuh in the 1960s.
Professional Organizations & Activities: Mary worked with many architects including Arthur Fitzgerald, Wallace G. Atkinson, and Allan C. Williams. She was involved with the Illinois State Housing Board, the Southtown Planning Association, and the Chicago Plan Commission.
Ruth Bramley Dean. Courtesy of The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Name: Ruth Bramley Dean
Date of Birth / Location: 1889
Date of Death / Location: 1932
Education: University of Chicago, 1908-1910
Date of Death / Location: Office of Jens Jensen, c. 1910-1912
Awards & Honors: First woman to be awarded the Architectural League of New York's Gold Medal, 1929
Nelva Weber. Courtesy of The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Name: Nelva Margaret Weber
Date of Birth / Location: 1908 / Arrowsmith, Illinois
Date of Death / Location: 1990
Education: Bachelor of the Arts in English, Illinois Wesleyan University; Bachelor of Fine Arts in Landscape Architecture and a Master's in Plant Ecology, University of Illinois, 1935.
Gertrude Deimel Kuh courtesy of Thomas Deimel.
Name: Gertrude Eisendrath Deimel Kuh
Date of Birth / Location: Setember 11, 1893 / Racine, WI
Date of Death / Location: September 4, 1977 / Chicago, IL
Education: Sweet Briar College; Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture in Groton, MA. She received her degree from the latter in 1917.
Date of Death / Location: Kuh studied under Ellen Shipman. The two women landscape architects formed a longtime friendship. After college, Kuh was hired by the office of Francis Robinson in Des Moines. She returned to Chicago by 1920, and by 1921, she had established her own firm and was also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois landscape architecture department she started her own firm. By 1950, Kuh was associated with Landscape Architect Mary Rogers. Kuh frequently worked with other woman landscape architects including: Mary Long Whitmore Rogers, May Elizabeth McAdams, and Edith Antognoli.
Professional Organizations & Activities: Active in the North Shore Club. Member of the Chicago Society of Landscape Architects. Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Edith C. Antognoli (circa 1965). Courtesy of the Park Forest Star.
Name: Edith Antognoli
Date of Birth / Location: January 2 1912 / Georgetown, British Guiana
Annette McCrea. Courtesy of The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Name: Annette E. McCrea
Date of Birth / Location: 1858
Date of Death / Location: 1928 / Minneapolis, Minnesota
Professional Organizations & Activities: Landscape gardener for Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois; Landscape architect for the Rock Island RR Co. and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul RR Co. and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RR Co., early 1900s through 1910s. Member of the American Outdoor and Art Association.