Eleanor Raymond

Eleanor Raymond ( born March 24, 1887 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † July 4, 1989 in Boston ) was an American architect who has made as an inventor in the solar house building a name.

Life

She studied architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Cambridge in Massachusetts and completed her studies in 1919.

After graduating, she worked at Henry Atherton Frost. She later opened his own architectural office.

First major notoriety she reached through the book Early Domestic Architecture of Pennsylvania on traditional architecture. The big breakthrough came with the 1948 invented and built the first solar house, the Dover Sun House. She was responsible for the architecture, whereas the heating concept of Maria Telkes came.