Theodate Pope Riddle

She graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and later hired faculty members to tutor her privately in architecture.

In the fall of 2014, Pope's work on that site was recognized in a competition, Built by Women New York City, launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered, and built by women.

[5] On May 1, 1915, she boarded the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania as a First Class passenger, together with her maid Miss Emily Robinson and Professor Edwin W. Friend, a fellow Farmington resident.

[6] When the ship was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat on May 7, Pope, Robinson, and Friend made for the lifeboats.

Then a man "insane with fright" made "a sudden jump and landed clean on my shoulders, believing I could support him."