Elizabeth Mills Brown (November 28, 1916 – December 27, 2008) was a prominent
American
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architectural historian, preservationist, and civic leader who lived in
New Haven
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and
Guilford, Connecticut
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History
Guilfo ...
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Brown was raised in
New York City
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and graduated from the
Chapin School
Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan.
History
Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origin ...
in 1934. She then graduated from
Bennington College
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and earned a master's degree from
Yale University
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.
She was the author of ''New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design'' (
Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
, 1976), a meticulosly-researched volume which details over 500 structures in that 400-year-old city. ''New Haven: A Guide'' has been reprinted many times and is widely considered to be the best source of information on New Haven's architectural history and urbanism. The book called the landmark
New Haven Coliseum
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building, which was new at the time, a structure of "gigantic scale" that gave spectators an "experience of sheer spatial intoxication."
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1916 births
2008 deaths
American architectural historians
American women historians
Chapin School (Manhattan) alumni
Writers from Manhattan
Bennington College alumni
Yale University alumni
Historians from New York (state)
20th-century American women
20th-century American people
21st-century American women