Designing Woman: Lecture on Katherine C. Budd, Pioneering Female Architect and Designer of Innis Arden Cottage

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Sylvia
Hasenkopf, historian and genealogist, will lecture Sunday, March 4, on Katherine C. Budd (1860–1951), the architect who designed Innis Arden Cottage (sometimes known as the Queen Anne Building) for J. Kennedy Tod at Greenwich Point.

Ms. Hasenkopf will explore the work of this extraordinary woman, a true maverick and one of the first women to successfully practice architecture in an era when the field
was dominated by men. William Appleton Potter, Budd’s
teacher and architect of the Tod mansion, recommended Ms. Budd when he was unable to undertake the commission. Budd went on to design hundreds of residential and commercial structures throughout the United States and was a contemporary and
friend of Julia Morgan, the architect for Hearst’s Castle, San
Simeon.

This program is co-sponsored by the Greenwich Historical Society and the Greenwich Point Conservancy.

Sunday, March 4, 2012, at 2:00 pm

Innis Arden Cottage, Greenwich Point Park

Free admission. Advance reservation required.
Call 203-869-6899, Ext. 10

Seating is limited and reservations will be
accepted in the order received.