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- Title
FIRST JEWISH LADY ARCHITECT OF THE WEST.
- Abstract
The article focuses on Dorothy Wormser, the first Jewish lady architect in the Western United States. She was born in Deming, New Mexico in 1894. Wormser took up architecture at the University of California and was hired by Julia Morgan, the architect of the Hearst family, in 1918. In 1921, she worked on the construction of the Emanu-El Residence Club as its associate architect. Wormser resigned in 1922 and went on a long European tour. She married Lambert Coblentz and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Rosalie.
- Subjects
WEST (U.S.); UNITED States; DEMING (N.M.); NEW Mexico; WORMSER, Dorothy; JEWISH architects; WOMEN architects
- Publication
Western States Jewish History, 1984, Vol 17, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0043-4221
- Publication type
Article