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De architectura
Yet women, as Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel: Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America describes, have been practising architecture for decades. If women still struggle in “a profession that traditionally functioned more like a gentlemen’s club,” one can only imagine what it was like in the late s – the period in which this story unfolds.
Storming the Old Boys Citadel
Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America
Carla Blank and Tania Martin
Baraka Books
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Yet despite these achievements, the two women remain “practically non-existent in the nation’s historical record.”
As authors Carla Blank and Tania Martin point out, part of the issue is that architecture was not always defined and legislated as it is today. Architecture programs were not found in Canadian u
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Hotel Carter
Former hotel in Manhattan, New York
The Hotel Carter is a defunct hotel at West 43rd Street, near Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Opened in June as the Dixie Hotel, the story structure originally extended from 43rd Street to 42nd Street, although the wing abutting 42nd Street has since been demolished. The hotel originally contained a bus terminal at its ground level, which was closed in , as well as a bar and restaurant immediately above it. The upper stories originally contained 1, rooms but were later downsized to rooms.
The hotel was developed by the Uris Buildings Corporation, which announced plans for the site in September The Bowery Savings Bank foreclosed on the hotel in and acquired it in March , operating it for the next decade. In , the Dixie became part of the Carter Hotels chain, which rehabilitated the hotel several times. The hotel was renamed the Carter in October in an attempt to rehabilitate its image. The businessman Tran Dinh Truong operated the Carter from until his death in , after which GF Management took over. The Carter closed in and was sold to Joseph Chetrit, who planned to renovate the hotel as of [update].
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