61:, in Cornish, New Hampshire. Upon graduation in 1922, Schryver joined Ellen Shipman’s New York firm as a draftsperson, working there for five years. In the Shipman office, Schryver received further training not only as a designer but also in the business of running an office. She corresponded with clients and nurserymen in addition to providing drawings and plans for Shipman’s growing practice. Schryver’s work draws on the design styles of Shipman and Platt, incorporating the Italian villa and English cottage garden influences that would remain evident throughout her career.
50:. The coursework there was intensive and lasted three years. It included architectural drafting, freehand and perspective drawing, construction, surveying, site engineering, history of architecture and landscape architecture, soils, plant materials, elementary forestry, botany, and entomology. While at Lowthorpe, she worked part-time with local, well-established landscape architects Elizabeth Leonard Strang, Harold Hill Blossom, and
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University of Oregon, home of
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Pacific Northwest. These included a variety of residential, civic, and public spaces. Schryver's expertise was engineering and
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35:. She grew up in an apartment over the Kingston railroad station where her father, George Schryver, managed the restaurant and her mother Eleanor Young was a homemaker. In 1903, her brother Harry Schryver was born.
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