American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (died 1958)

Mary Colter

Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was an American architect and designer. She was one of the very few female American architects in her day. She was the designer of many landmark buildings and spaces for the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad, notably in Grand Canyon National Park. Her work had enormous influence as she helped to create a style, blending Spanish Colonial Revival and Mission Revival architecture with Native American motifs and Rustic elements, that became popular throughout the Southwest.

Born

1869

April 4

Died

1958

Era

1860s

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1958 Died

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-503 Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
190 Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
611 Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
619 The Bijapur-Mumbai inscription is issued by Pulakeshin II, describing the Battle of Narmada.: 207

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The world in 1958

When Mary departed

april 14 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
april 21 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
april 26 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
april 4 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

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Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Barry Pepper 1970– Canadian actor and producer Bea Benaderet 1906–1968 Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968) Caracalla 188–217 Roman emperor (died 217) Craig T. Nelson 1944– American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Hugo Weaving 1960– Nigerian-Australian actor and producer Magda Aelvoet 1944– Belgian politician Makhanlal Chaturvedi 1889–1968 Indian journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1968) Nachman of Breslov 1772–1810 Ukrainian founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement (died 1810)

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Also born in 1869

Edwin Lutyens 1869–1944 English architect, designed the Castle Drogo and Thiepval Memorial (born 1869) Emilio Aguinaldo 1869–1964 Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (born 1869) Gustav Vigeland 1869–1943 Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (died 1943) Henri Désiré Landru 1869– French serial killer (died 1922) José María Pino Suárez 1869– Mexican politician, Vice President of Mexico, murdered in a military coup (died 1913) Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948 leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (born 1869) Neville Chamberlain 1869–1940 English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1940) Robbie Ross 1869– Canadian journalist and art critic (died 1918) Will Marion Cook 1869– American violinist and composer (died 1944)

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