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Victorine du Pont Homsey

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31: 217:, they felt it was important for architects to work on developing ways to work economically and with new materials. In 1950, one of their house designs for small sites was included in a "Five-Star" series developed by 180: 512: 205:, and in 1935, they opened a firm known as Victorine & Samuel Homsey (later Victorine & Samuel Homsey, Inc.). They were perhaps the first Delaware architects to work in the 213:
to represent the International Style in a 1938 Paris exhibition. In general, however, their style was more eclectic, and in part because they began their careers during the
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in Boston (1926–27), and there she met Samuel Homsey, whom she married in 1929.
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https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/remembering-victorine-du-pont-homsey_o
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were an old and well-to-do family; her great-grandfather was the industrialist
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After completing her studies at the Cambridge School in 1925, she worked as a
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https://www.aia.org/events/65956-the-architecture-of-victorine-du-pont-homsey
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https://www.cfa.gov/about-cfa/who-we-are/victorine-du-pont-homsey
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Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women
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and only the eighth woman nationwide to achieve that honor.
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Grosse Point, Michigan
Hockessin, Delaware
Wellesley College
Smith College
Architect
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
du Pont family
du Pont family
Victorine & Samuel Homsey
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
Delaware
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Du Ponts
Alfred V. du Pont
Wellesley College
Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women
Smith College
drafter
Allen & Collens
Wilmington, Delaware
International Style
Museum of Modern Art
Great Depression
Better Homes and Gardens


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