Description
Papers of Verna Cook Shipway, American architect and author. Shipway designed homes in New York state and California, and
wrote, with her husband Warren Shipway, five books on contemporary Mexican residential architecture and interior design.
Background
Verna Cook Shipway was born October 19, 1890, in Spokane, Washington. She attended the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris
and the School of Architecture at Columbia University, where she met and married fellow architecture student Edgar Salomonsky.
They founded an architectural firm in 1920. When Edgar died in 1929, Verna continued to run the business on her own, specializing
in Georgian, colonial and English style homes. She published a study of American furniture entitled Masterpieces of Furniture Design (1931).
Extent
7 Linear feet
(6 archives boxes, 5 flat boxes, and 53 map case folders)
Restrictions
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.