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    First Female US Architect Practiced Here in Central Florida
    Gregory Stock, AIA
    • Aug 18, 2014
    • 2 min

    First Female US Architect Practiced Here in Central Florida

    Born in 1873 in Waltham MA, Ida Annah Ryan was the first American female architect. She graduated from MIT with a Masters of Science, and a Masters of Architecture in 1907. Ida was attracted to the idea of the study of architecture during her high school years. While practicing initially in Massachusetts, she relocated to Florida because of a lack of work there after the War. At first employed by Frederick H. Trimble in 1918 and 1919, as his designing architect, Ida formed he
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    Save the Capen House
    Gregory Stock, AIA
    • Aug 5, 2013
    • 1 min

    Save the Capen House

    The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculp­ture Gar­dens, in part­ner­ship with the Friends of Casa Feliz and the Win­ter Park His­tor­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion, along with a lead­er­ship com­mit­tee com­prised of preservation-minded cit­i­zens, announce the offi­cial launch of a fundrais­ing cam­paign to pre­serve the his­toric Capen House of Win­ter Park. The offi­cial kick-off event for the fundrais­ing cam­paign has ten­ta­tively been slated for Thurs­day, August 8, at the Polasek Museu
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