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Word about the informal program spread, and by the 1916–17 academic year, the college was advertising the experimental program and its curriculum as the Cambridge School of Architectural and Landscape Design for Women. In its first few years, the school had from 9 to 12 women students. The first two
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In 1932, the school finally found a partner in Smith College and became a formal graduate school under the name Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. It remained independent, with its campus located in Cambridge, but by agreement with Smith College it recommended its students
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A problem in the school's early years had been its inability to issue formal degrees, which are required in most states in order to register as a licensed architect. In 1924, the school formally incorporated as a separate educational institution but still did not grant degrees. Various colleges and
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to tutor Brooks privately. Somewhat to his surprise, Frost found his unexpected pupil an adept and enthusiastic student, and in an account of the school's founding he wrote: "Teaching a woman what we had always considered strictly a man's job was not the painful ordeal it had promised to be."
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In 1919, the school's name was changed to the Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women, a shift that Frost later regretted for its implication that women were only suited to residential (i.e. domestic) architectural design.
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In 1938, the school became fully integrated with Smith College even though the campus still remained in Cambridge. It became known for championing modernist design, and in 1939 it celebrated its 25th anniversary with a series of lectures at the
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to the college for master's degrees in either architecture or landscape architecture. The first master's degrees were awarded in 1934, and in 1936, the school added bachelor's degrees in both subjects.
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In 1942, due to financial difficulties and lack of support from a new Smith president, Smith closed the program. That same year, women were for the first time allowed into the
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Archives of the school are housed by Smith College and contain photographs, school-issued documents and brochures, alumnae bulletins, and other material.
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universities were approached throughout the 1920s as possible degree-granting partners, including Harvard, Radcliffe, and
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Within a year, Frost had four women students and another professor, landscape architect
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women to complete the school's three-year program were Brooks and landscape architect
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Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women (1919–1932)
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Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture records
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Architecture school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Long Island Landscapes and the Women who Designed Them
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Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women

Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
Henry Atherton Frost
Bremer Whidden Pond
Harvard University
Smith College
Harvard University
Smith College
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Radcliffe College
Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture
James Sturgis Pray
Henry Atherton Frost
Bremer Whidden Pond
Rose Greely
Eleanor Raymond

Columbia University
Museum of Modern Art
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Lucile Council
Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher
Jean B. Fletcher
Helen French
Florence Holmes Gerke
Rose Greely
Sarah P. Harkness

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