Favoring quality over quantity, he took home the best works of art, not the most. Havemeyer of New York, the Potter Palmers of Chicago, and his good friend Harris Whittemore of Naugatuck, CT. He was among the first American collectors of Impressionism, a passion he shared with Louisine and H.O. “…in business management I have held to the doing and results, rather than to the anticipation through estimates…”Īs an art collector, Alfred Pope’s interest in Impressionist paintings – their immediacy and boldness – made him part of a select group of connoisseurs at the turn of the 20th century. 1933: Licensed as Connecticut’s sixth woman architect.1921: Begins construction of Avon Old Farms School, Avon, CT.1920-1922: Reconstructs Theodore Roosevelt’s birthplace, New York City.1918: Accepted into the American Institute of Architects.1916: Licensed as architect in New York.1914-1915: Constructs Hop Brook School, Naugatuck, CT.Charles Gates, Locust Valley, Long Island, New York (destroyed by fire, Feb. 1911-1914: Builds three houses for Hill-Stead workers at 179, 181 and 183 Garden Street, Farmington.1906-1909: Designs and constructs Westover School, Middlebury, CT.Along with Hill-Stead, all but one of Theodate’s buildings still stand today as an enduring testimony to one of this country’s earliest important women architects. Her will stipulated that Hill-Stead become a museum as a memorial to her parents and “for the benefit and enjoyment of the public.” She called for the house and its contents to remain intact, not to be moved, lent or sold.
Theodate and John’s wedding An enduring legacy. In 19, she took in two more orphaned boys, Donald Carson and Paul Martin, whom she raised as foster children. In 1914, Theodate had taken in a two-year-old orphan, Gordon Brockway, who died of polio in 1916. The Riddles traveled widely, and took an extensive tour in 1919 of China, Japan, and Korea. One year later, at age 49, she married 51-year-old John Wallace Riddle, a diplomat, whom she had met 12 years earlier through Farmington friend and neighbor Anna Roosevelt Cowles (President Theodore Roosevelt’s sister). She survived, even after being pulled from the water and sent, unconscious, to a nearby morgue. Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. In May 1915, Theodate traveled to England to visit the British Society of Psychical Research. Her varied circle of friends were just as accomplished and forward thinking as she. In addition to a career as an architect, Theodate was involved in social causes, had a profound interest in psychical research, and operated a successful farming enterprise.
From an early age, she envisioned a future of living in the country, caring for orphaned children, and building a school. Theodate was born in 1867, grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and continued her education in the late 1880s at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut, then a finishing school. Hill-Stead’s story begins with founder Theodate Pope Riddle, an only child of privilege, who yearned to live on a farm in an era when women of her class were expected to focus on family and social prominence.
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