{{Short description|American architect (1874–1915)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox architect | name = Anna Pendleton Schenck | image = Anna Pendleton Schenck circa 1915.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|01|08}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, NY | death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|04|29|1874|01|08}} | death_place = Manhattan, New York | other_names = | nationality = | alma_mater = | spouse = | partner = | children = | father = Noah Hunt Schenck | mother = Ann Pierce Pendleton | awards = | practice = | significant_buildings = | significant_projects = | significant_design = | signature = | website = | embedded = }}
'''Anna Pendleton Schenck''' (January 8, 1874 – April 29, 1915) was an architect.<ref name=obit/><ref>{{cite news |title=Girl Architects Organize A Firm. First of Its Kind, It's Expected to Show That Women Need Only Opportunity |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/03/08/100302206.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 8, 1914 |access-date=2014-01-20 }}</ref> She was the business partner of Marcia Mead (1879–1967) and they established the first female architectural firm in New York City in 1914.<ref name="Allaback">{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The First American Women Architects |author=Sarah Allaback |title=Marcia Mead (1879-1967) |year= 2008| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpY0KmICqKYC&q=Anna++Schenck&pg=PA135 |isbn= 9780252033216|author-link=Sarah Allaback }}</ref>
==Biography== Schenck was born on January 8, 1874, in Brooklyn, New York to Noah Hunt Schenck and Ann Pierce Pendleton.<ref name=obit/>
Schenck attended Columbia University and was one of the first female graduates.<ref name=obit/> In Paris she studied under Aubertin.<ref name=obit/><ref name=Allaback/>
In March 1914, Schenck and Mead established an architectural firm.<ref name=obit/> They completed some country houses in New York and New Jersey, a neighborhood center for children, and the Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes in Washington, DC.<ref name=Allaback/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/95860325/|title=Architectural drawings for apartment houses ("The Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes"), Washington, D.C.|work=The Library of Congress|access-date=2018-10-19|language=en}}</ref> They were awarded first honor for their concept of a neighborhood center for the Bronx by the Chicago City Club in March 1915.<ref name=obit/><ref name=Zanten/>
Schenck died of pneumonia on April 29, 1915, at New York Hospital.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Miss Anna P. Schenck, Architect, Dies |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/04/30/104646090.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 30, 1915 |access-date=2014-01-20 }}</ref><ref name="Zanten">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Yk3sy6vEoIC&pg=PA102 |title=Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900–1925 |chapter=Considering the People on the Back Streets: Urban Planning at the City Club of Chicago |first=Leslie |last=Coburn |editor-first=David |editor-last=Van Zantzen |date=2013-04-30 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=9780810128989 |location=Evanston, IL |oclc=811137317 |page=102 |access-date=2020-03-02 |via=Google Books}}</ref> Mead retained the name Schenck and Mead for several years after Schenck's death.<ref name=Zanten/>
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