Vetran of WW11
His mother Mary Hook died on her Bithday at 101. Mary Rockwell Hook (Mrs. Inghram D.) was born in Junction City, Kansas, the daughter of Bertrand Rockwell, a successful grain merchant and banker. The family moved to Kansas City in 1906. Hook graduated from Wellesley College in 1900, and decided on a career in architecture studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Hook was one of the country's first women architects. Her work in Kansas City dates from as early as 1908 with her most noted designs done in the Sunset Hills area during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923, Hook had formed an architectural partnership with Eric Douglas Macwilliam Remington (1893-1975). Hook had done work throughout the United States. In 1935, she purchased a sandy key off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, and developed it with residences of her design. Not all of her designs echoed the grand residences she admired during her tours of Italy, France , and Spain. She may have been the first architect in the Kansas City area to use cast-in-place concrete walls, and as early as 1937 installed a solar system to provide hot water for a resort hotel on the Siesta Key, an island near Sarasota.
There are still many family plots.
His mother Mary Hook died on her Bithday at 101. Mary Rockwell Hook (Mrs. Inghram D.) was born in Junction City, Kansas, the daughter of Bertrand Rockwell, a successful grain merchant and banker. The family moved to Kansas City in 1906. Hook graduated from Wellesley College in 1900, and decided on a career in architecture studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Hook was one of the country's first women architects. Her work in Kansas City dates from as early as 1908 with her most noted designs done in the Sunset Hills area during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923, Hook had formed an architectural partnership with Eric Douglas Macwilliam Remington (1893-1975). Hook had done work throughout the United States. In 1935, she purchased a sandy key off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, and developed it with residences of her design. Not all of her designs echoed the grand residences she admired during her tours of Italy, France , and Spain. She may have been the first architect in the Kansas City area to use cast-in-place concrete walls, and as early as 1937 installed a solar system to provide hot water for a resort hotel on the Siesta Key, an island near Sarasota.
There are still many family plots.
Vetran of WW11
His mother Mary Hook died on her Bithday at 101. Mary Rockwell Hook (Mrs. Inghram D.) was born in Junction City, Kansas, the daughter of Bertrand Rockwell, a successful grain merchant and banker. The family moved to Kansas City in 1906. Hook graduated from Wellesley College in 1900, and decided on a career in architecture studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Hook was one of the country's first women architects. Her work in Kansas City dates from as early as 1908 with her most noted designs done in the Sunset Hills area during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923, Hook had formed an architectural partnership with Eric Douglas Macwilliam Remington (1893-1975). Hook had done work throughout the United States. In 1935, she purchased a sandy key off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, and developed it with residences of her design. Not all of her designs echoed the grand residences she admired during her tours of Italy, France , and Spain. She may have been the first architect in the Kansas City area to use cast-in-place concrete walls, and as early as 1937 installed a solar system to provide hot water for a resort hotel on the Siesta Key, an island near Sarasota.
There are still many family plots.
His mother Mary Hook died on her Bithday at 101. Mary Rockwell Hook (Mrs. Inghram D.) was born in Junction City, Kansas, the daughter of Bertrand Rockwell, a successful grain merchant and banker. The family moved to Kansas City in 1906. Hook graduated from Wellesley College in 1900, and decided on a career in architecture studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Hook was one of the country's first women architects. Her work in Kansas City dates from as early as 1908 with her most noted designs done in the Sunset Hills area during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923, Hook had formed an architectural partnership with Eric Douglas Macwilliam Remington (1893-1975). Hook had done work throughout the United States. In 1935, she purchased a sandy key off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, and developed it with residences of her design. Not all of her designs echoed the grand residences she admired during her tours of Italy, France , and Spain. She may have been the first architect in the Kansas City area to use cast-in-place concrete walls, and as early as 1937 installed a solar system to provide hot water for a resort hotel on the Siesta Key, an island near Sarasota.
There are still many family plots.
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