Shipway, Verna Cook, 1890-1978

found: OCLC database, Mar. 17, 1998(hdg.: Shipway, Verna Cook, 1890- and hdg.: Salomonsky, Verna Cook, 1890- )

found: Wikipedia, February 22, 2017(Verna Cook Salomonsky; Verna Cook Salomonsky (1890-1978) was a pioneering early 20th-century American architect known for her work as a solo practitioner in residential communities outside of New York in the 1920s and 1930s and later as an author on architectural design and history; following the death of her first husband, Edgar Salomonsky, in 1929, she maintained her own practice and designed several hundred homes, including a model home for the New York World's Fair in 1939; in the 1960s, she and her second husband, Warren Butler Shipway, wrote several books on Mexican domestic architecture and design; Verna Cook was born in Spokane, Washington on October 19, 1890; by 1920, Cook had married fellow Columbia graduate Edgar Salomonsky and the couple established their own firm, focusing largely on residential architecture; after Edgar's death in 1929, Verna continued to practice alone, completing hundreds of residences in the New York metropolitan area and later in California; in 1939, Cook married her second husband, Warren Butler Shipway; the couple moved to California in 1947, and travel to Mexico in the 1950s inspired five books on historic and contemporary Mexican residential architecture, cowritten by Cook and her husband; Cook died in 1978 in La Jolla, California, and her archives today reside at the University of California at San Diego)