Architect and author, Elisabeth Coit was born in Winchester, Mass. She studied at Radcliffe College, 1909-1911, and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School, 1911-1913, and received her B.S. in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1919. From 1919 to 1929 she was draftsman-designer in the office of Grosvenor Atterbury in New York, and then maintained her own office in New York, 1930-1942. She designed houses, offices, apartments, and planned renovations and alterations. She was the first woman to receive the Langley Award from the American Institute of Architects, 1938-1940, for research on U.S. low-income housing. Coit was architect and technical standards editor for the Federal Public Housing Authority's publication, Public Housing Design, 1942-1947. From 1948 until her retirement in 1962, she was principal planner for the New York City Housing Authority. A prolific writer on housing, in 1955 she was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for literature and public service. After her retirement, she continued to be active as a housing consultant to government and private organizations and beginning in 1968 was editor of the newsletter of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials.
From the description of Papers, 1899-1987 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007062
