NOTABLE WOMEN OF NORTHWEST

Ernesta Ballard Shirley Hanson Dorothy Shipley White Carol Franklin Ann Spaeth Vanna Venturi Denise Scott Brown Alice Lea Tasman Constance Clayton Edith Emerson Marie Jones Gertrude Houston Woodward Lydia Morris Sioux Baldwin Quita Woodward Horan Frances Anne Wister Barbara Crawford Patricia Marian Cove Margaret Esherick Ruth Kapp Nancy Hubby

the firm Venturi, Scott Brown Ann Spaeth – Co-Founder of the Associates. Chestnut Hill Conservancy, then the Chestnut Hill Historical Society Violet Oakley – A noted 20th century artist, principal artist for Alice Lea Tasman – Co-Founder of the largest number of murals in the Chestnut Hill Conservancy,

the Capitol, and then the Chestnut Hill Historical

tenant of George and Gertrude Society

Woodward.

Edith Emerson - an American

Gertrude Houston Woodward - painter, muralist, illustrator, Actively participated in the writer, who served as the vice- numerous Woodward president, president, and curator contributions to Chestnut Hill, of the in including her leading role in the the Chestnut Hill neighborhood work of the Chestnut Hill of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Community Centre. from 1940 to 1978.

Quita Woodward Horan – Noted Lydia Morris – She and her Notable Women of for her hands-on management of brother bought property in the Woodward House Corporation Chestnut Hill and spent the rest of Northwest buildings and her deep-seated their lives tending to and building Philadelphia connections with the Chestnut Hill up extensive gardens that, by Conservancy. 1913, would occupy 166 acres and

would eventually become the “I think the majority of effective Patricia Marian Cove – Astute and Morris Arboretum. leaders in our community dedicated leader with the Frances Anne Wister – In 1931, are women, Chestnut Hill Business Association, along with 58 others, she created especially if you include length the Chestnut Hill Community The Philadelphia Society for the and continuity of service as a Association, and the Chestnut Hill Preservation of Landmarks, where criterion of excellence.” Conservancy. she was the first elected - Rob Fleming President.

Nancy Hubby - A leader in saving Margaret Esherick – Ernesta Ballard – Executive the VFW Building, a founding Commissioned The Esherick director of the Pennsylvania President of the Chestnut Hill House in Philadelphia, one of the Horticultural Society from 1963 to Historical Society and initiator of most studied of the nine built 1981, credited by The New York its first publication, “Chestnut Hill: houses designed by American Times with bringing its An Architectural History,” along architect Louis Kahn. annual Philadelphia Flower with subsequent key preservation Show to "international projects over decades. Dorothy Shipley White - A noted prominence.” scholar of French history and

Shirley Hanson – Co-founder of culture, she commissioned the Carol Franklin - Retired landscape the Chestnut Hill Conservancy Mitchell/Guirgola designed house architect and co-founder of the (then the Historical Society) and at 717 Glengarry. landscape design firm co-authored with Nancy Hubby Andropogon. the classic book, Preserving and Vanna Venturi - One of the first

Maintaining the Older Home. prominent works of Denise Scott Brown – One of the the postmodern most influential architects and architecture movement, the planners of the 20th century, of Vanna Venturi House was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother, Vanna Venturi, and constructed between 1962 and 1964.

Constance Clayton - Philadelphia School District superintendent, in the 1980s.

Marie Jones - Editor of the Chestnut Hill Local in the 1980s.

Sioux Baldwin - Local naturalist and one-time director at Andorra Tree House.

Barbara Crawford - Art teacher at Chestnut Hill Academy, 1942- 1990, who initially took over her husband's teaching job at CHA when he headed off to serve in WWII.

Ruth Kapp - Springside French teacher who lived in Southern France during the Holocaust, was given name Renee Hartz as part of her protection from Nazi persecution of Jews during the Resistance, and later moved to the U.S.