220:, and devised a unit of women drafters to fill the void. During this time, she also continued with freelancing designs. Alda left the Commission in 1921 and increasingly spent more time traveling with Catt, curtailing her own architectural work. In 1928, after Catt's companion, Mary "Molly" Garrett Hay died, Wilson moved in with Catt to help her, and eventually became a permanent housemate as well as Catt's secretary. After Catt's death, Wilson, who served as Catt's executor donated six albums that as Catt's secretary she had compiled of photographs and materials on international suffrage to
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285:-story frame bungalow on a concrete foundation. Built in 1916, the residence, which was constructed to provide living quarters for the teachers being recruited to work in the school, had modern amenities including the first furnace in Gatlinburg and running water. The exterior was clad with weatherboard siding featuring shed
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