Theodate Pope Riddle (February 2 1867- August 30, 1946) was a well-known American architect. Born Effie Brooks Pope in Salem, Ohio, she was the only child of industrialist and art collector Alfred Atmore Pope and his wife Ada Lunette Brooks. When Effie was 19, she changed her name to "Theodate" in honor of her grandmother Theodate Stackpole. She was a graduate of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. Wikipedia
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Hill-Steads story begins with founder Theodate Pope Riddle, an only child of privilege, who yearned for her own dairy farm in an era when women of her class were expected to focus on family and social prominence. www.hillstead.org/history/theodate.html
