Elizabeth Mills Brown, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Elizabeth Mills Brown

American architectural historian

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1916

Date of Death: 27-Dec-2008

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Elizabeth Mills Brown

  • Elizabeth Mills "Betty" Brown (November 28, 1916 – December 27, 2008) was a prominent American architectural historian, preservationist, and civic leader who lived in New Haven and Guilford, Connecticut.Brown was raised in New York City and graduated from the Chapin School in 1934.
  • She then graduated from Bennington College and earned a master's degree from Yale.She was the author of New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design (Yale University Press, 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 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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