Eleanore K. Pettersen FAIA


General Information


Occupation: Architect

Date of Birth: February 18, 1916

Date of Death: January 15, 2003

Birth City: Passaic

Birth State/Province: New Jersey

Birth Country: United States

Resident City: Saddle River

Resident State/Province: New Jersey

Resident Country: United States

Archive/Repository: International Archive of Women in Architecture, Ms2003-018, see http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/

Sources: Eleanor Pettersen Architectural Archive; (PDF) A Directory of Frank Lloyd Wright Associates: APPRENTICES 1929 to 1959 .... 06/01/53 from Google search on Frank Lloyd Wright apprentices


Specialties



Jobs


Employer: National Defense Research Committee

City: Princeton

State: New Jersey

Country: United States

Notes: Analyzed enemy building structures


Employer: R.H. Macy & Company

Title: Store Architect

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Notes: Designed shops and exhibits, helped with post-war planning


Employer: Tennessee Valley Authority, Department of Regional Studies

Title: Design Architect

City: Knoxville

State: Tennessee

Country: United States

Notes: Designed government facilities


Employer: Arthur Rigolo, Architect

City: Clifton

State: New Jersey

Country: United States


Employer: Eleanore Pettersen, Architect, FAIA

Title: Principal Architect

City: Saddle River

State: New Jersey

Country: United States


Employer: Design Collaborative

City: Saddle River

State: New Jersey

Country: United States

Notes: A subsidiary of Eleanore Pettersen, Architect that handled interior design.


Collaborators



Apprenticeships


Institution: Taliesin and Taliesin West

City: Spring Green, Wisconsin and Scottsdale, Arizona

State: Wisconsin

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1941

Notes: Taliesin Fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright


Awards


Name: Professional Achievement Citation

Description: Given by Cooper Union

Notes: First woman to receive this award


Name: North Jersey Architectural Award for Single Family Dwelling

Description: Given by North Jersey Cultural Council and the Architects League of Northern New Jersey

Notes: For residence of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Gardner


Name: Outstanding Achievement Award

Description: Girl Scout Council of Bergen County


Name: Pioneer Women of the 90's Honoree

Description: Presented by County Executive William


Name: Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award for Architecture

Description: Given by Cooper Union


Name: Named a New Jersey Woman of Achievement

Description: Given by Douglass College and the New Jersey State Federation of Women


Name: Kathryn Miller Award

Notes: Given to outstanding women active in women


Name: Elizabeth Cady Stanton The World Is Moving Award

Description: Given by the Women's Rights Information Center


Name: Excellence in Concept, Design and Originality, 1st Place for Residential Multi-Unit

Notes: For Bear's Nest Townhouse Development


Name: Outstanding Services Award

Description: Given by the New Jersey Commission on Women


Name: President's Citation for Meritorious Service

Description: Given by the New Jersey Society of Architects


Name: Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA)


Exhibitions


Title: Ageless Perceptions IV: Senior Women in Architecture

Description: Featured drawings and photographs of buildings and projects designed by seven senior women architects at the SOHO20 Gallery

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: February 19, 1991

End Date: March 09, 1991

Notes: Guest Curator Alta Indelman, AIA. Featured Eleanor Raymond, Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, May Callas, Zelma Wilson, Anne Griswold Tyng, Vassia Kiaulenas, and Eleanore Pettersen.


Title: Eleanore Pettersen A.I.A. Four Decades

Description: One-woman show with drawings, photographs and models at the Arts Center of Northern New Jersey

City: New Milford

State: New Jersey

Country: United States

Start Date: March 03, 1991

End Date: March 21, 1991

Notes: Celebrating women's history month


Title: A Taliesin Legacy: The Independent Work of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices

Description: Featured drawings and photographs of twenty of Wright's apprentices at the Pratt Galleries

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: January 31, 1992

End Date: April 03, 1992

Notes: Curator Tobias Guggenheimer. Featured Peter Berndtson, E. Thomas Casey, Alden Dow, Arthur Dyson, Aaron Green, Phillip Hawes, David Henken, John Howe, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, E. Fay Jones, Henry Klumb, John Lautner, Charles Montooth, Robert Mosher, Stephen Nemtin, William Wesley Peters, Eleanore Pettersen, Anthony Puttnam, John Rattenbury, and Edgar Tafel.


Notable Projects


Title: Alford/Nixon House

Description: Residence

City: Saddle River

State: New Jersey

Country: United States


Title: Bear's Nest Townhome Development

Description: Luxury townhomes

City: Park Ridge

State: New Jersey

Country: United States


Education


Institution: Cooper Union

Degree: Certificate in Architecture


Institution: Cooper Union

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Architecture


Licensing


License: Architect's License

Organization: State of New Jersey


License: Architect's License

Organization: State of Georgia


License: Architect's License

Organization: State of North Carolina


License: Architect's License

Organization: State of Connecticut


License: Architect's License

Organization: State of Maine


License: Architect's License

Organization: State of Massachusetts


License: Architect's License

Organization: State of New York


Professional Affiliations


Organization: New Jersey Society of Architects


Organization: American Institute of Architects


Organization: New Jersey State Board of Architects


Organization: Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture


Publications By



Publications About


Title: A Talesin Legacy: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright's Apprentices

Author: Guggenheimer, Tobias

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States


Title: A Girl is a Fellow Here.100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

Author: Beverly Wills

Publication: A 15-minute Documentary Film

Publisher: Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

State: New York

Country: United States

Date Published: June 15, 2009

Url: http://www.bwaf.org/