1842

Alfred Atmore Pope born in N. Vassalboro, ME.

1844

Ada Brooks born in Salem, OH.

1866

May 3: Alfred Pope and Ada Brooks marry in Salem. They live in Cleveland.

1867

Feb 2: Effie Brooks Pope (TPR) born.

1869

Alfred Pope begins association with Cleveland Malleable Iron Co.

1886

TPR changes her name from Effie to Theodate

June: Finishes at Mittleburger's School in Cleveland.

Oct: Begins Miss Porter's School, Farmington, CT.

1888

Mar: TPR Leaves Miss Porter's.

Oct: Grand Tour of Europe with parents and Harris Whittemore.

1889

Sept: Return from Europe.

1890

June: TPR moves to Farmington and rents house (the O'Rourkery). Moves into house in Sept.

1890/91

Winter: TPR takes art history course at Miss Porter's.

1891

Mary Hillard accepts position at St. Margaret's in Waterbury, CT.

1892

May: TPR buys the O'Rourkery along with 42 acres.

June: Buys half interest in property next to it. She commissions architectural firm Hapgood and Hapgood, probably to make renovations on the O'Rourkery, which continue into 1893.

July: Trip to Alaska with parents.

1893

Fall: TPR starts giving art history lectures at St. Margaret's in Waterbury, CT.

1894

Jan: TPR starts private art history lessons with Alan Marquand at Princeton. Continues intermittently through spring, 1896.

Summer: In Europe with parents.

1896

Spring: TPR buys remaining half interest, including a house (the Gundy), in four-acre property next to the O'Rourkery. She joins that house to the O'Rourkery.

1897

TPR organizes sewing classes for girls in Farmington.
Meets with Warren Manning in Farmington to plan the site of Hill-Stead, a country house for her parents.

1898

Summer: With parents, cousins, and Mary Hillard in Europe.
Returns in August.
Sept: TPR informs McKim, Mead & White that she will provide plans for Hill-Stead.

1899

Spring: Construction at Hill-Stead begins with building of barn.
April: Visits Bermuda with Mary Hillard

1900

TPR joins Unitarian church.
Sept: Reading Proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research.

1901

Jan: TPR becomes member of the Colonial Dames.
Mar: Trip to Virginia with Mary Hillard.
May: First dinner, by gaslight, at Hill-Stead.
Fall: TPR organizes cooking classes for girls and renovates building given to her for cooking and sewing school classes in Farmington.
"Odd and End Shop" opened at the Gundy.
Plans for a two-story portico to be added to the front of Hill-Stead.

1902

Feb: TPR visits Mexico.

1903

Feb: TPR goes to France with Mary Hillard. They visit Mary Cassatt. TPR starts planning a school (Westover) for Mary Hillard as headmistress.

1904

Feb: TPR's first "sitting" with medium Leonora Piper in Boston.

1906

TPR works with Lillian Wald's Henry Street Settlement intermittently through 1910.
TPR adds a combination garage and gardener's workshop at Hill-Stead.
McKim, Mead & White plan a northern office extension at Hill-Stead.
June: Gives $25,000 to the American Institute for Scientific Research, becoming a founder.

1907

July: Plans for Westover School in Middlebury, CT, finished and sent out to bid.
Aug: TPR entertains William James and Ida Tarbell at Hill-Stead.
Oct: TPR opens architectural office at 15 East 40th St., NYC.

1908

Dec: Mary Cassatt visits Hill-Stead.

1909

Apr: Westover School opens.

1910

Summer: TPR travels in England, through the Lake District and the Cotswolds, and Scotland. Meets Henry James, Lady and Sir Oliver Lodge.
Fall: Probably begins Highfield in Middlebury, CT, for the Joseph Chamberlains.

1911

May: Henry James visits Hill-Stead for four days.

1912

Aug: TPR competes, unsuccessfully, for commission for The Loomis School, Windsor, CT.
Oct: TPR involved in founding "Women's Auxiliary to Progressive Party in CT."

1913

TPR works on plans for Dormer House for Mrs. Charles Gates in Locust Valley, Long Island.
Aug: Alfred Pope dies of a stroke.
Oct: TPR opens architectual office at 15 East 40th St., NYC.

1914

Feb: TPR plans Hop Brook School, Naugatuck, CT, a public elementary school commissioned by Harris Whittemore.
Apr: Arrival of Gordon Brockway, TPR's ward.
July: TPR considers establishing a school for boys as a memorial to her father and starts to buy land in Avon, CT.

1915

TPR board member of Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities.
Mar: Hop Brook School plans completed.
May: TPR sets sail for London with Edwin Friend on the Lusitania and survives sinking of ship. She recovers in London and goes on to France.
Dec: TPR closes New York City office.

1916

May: TPR marries John Wallace Riddle.
Dec: She becomes certified as an architect in New York state. Gordon Brockway dies of poliomyelitis.

1917

Apr: TPR takes on second ward, Paul Martin.
Summer: John Riddle called to Washington to serve in the Military Intelligence Division of the Army War College as a linguist.

1918

Feb: TPR begins to plan Avon Old Farms School.
Apr: She visits Gov. McLean in Washington with other women to urge him to vote for woman suffrage.
May: TPR becomes a member of the American Institute of Architects. She is listed as Theodate Pope. She draws plot plan for Avon Old Farms. Elevations follow.
Nov: Third ward, Donald Carson, arrives.

1919

Feb: TPR enters competition for Reform School for Women in East Lyme, CT, with Beatrix Farrand as landscape architect. Her plan not chosen.
Apr: Basic work on drawings for Avon Old Farms completed. She leaves with husband on extensive trip to Asia.
Nov: TPR opens office set up by Leland Lyon at 402 Madison Ave., NYC.
Dec: TPR receives commission to reconstruct Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in NYC.

1920

TPR is one of three architects appointed to restore the Old State House in Hartford, CT.
Spring: Exhibits plans and color perspective drawings of Avon Old Farms in NYC gallery.
May: Ada Pope dies.
June: TPR plans summer trip to England. Looks up architect and craftsman Alfred Powell in the Cotswolds.

1921

Spring: Avon Old Farms construction begins.
Nov: John Riddle appointed ambassador to Argentina.

1922

Jan: The Riddles sail to Argentina.
June: TPR returns to NYC to work on Roosevelt Birthplace.

1923

TPR exhibits photographs of Avon Old Farms at the Architectural Club of New Haven.
Oct: Dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace.

1924

She closes New York office.
Nov. John Dewey endorses the educational policy of Avon Old Farms in the New York Times.

1925

May: John Riddle resigns post of ambassador and leaves Argentina.
June: TPR included, as only woman, in NYC exhibition "Architecture and Allied Arts."

1926

Summer: the Riddles travel in Europe.
Oct: TPR elected honorary member of the Architectural Club of New Haven.

1927

May: TPR receives Robinson Memorial Medal from the Architectural Club of New Haven for her work on Avon Old Farms.
Fall: Avon Old Farms School opens.
Dec: The Riddles travel to Italy.

1928

TPR exhibits photographs of Avon Old Farms buildings in the Ninth Annual Exhibit, Architectural Club of New Haven.
June: The Riddles sail to Europe for summer and early fall.

1930

Mar: Wins suit brought against her by former draftsman and associate Leland Lyon.
July: The Riddles sail for Europe for the summer.

1933

TPR has plans drawn for the library, chapel, guest and gate houses of Avon Old Farms.
Spring: The Riddles in Europe.
Nov: TPR is certified as architect in CT.

1934

Dec: The Riddles leave for Europe and Egypt.

1937

Fall: The Riddles in Europe.

1938

TPR included in exhibition at Yale, "Photographs of Work by Three Women Architects of Connecticut."
July: The Riddles sail to Europe.

1939

Summer: The Riddles in Europe.

1940

TPR receives silver medal and diploma awarded by the Fifth Pan-American Congress of Architects at Montevideo, Uruguay, for plans of Avon Old Farms.

1941

Dec: John Riddle dies.

1944

May: Provost and faculty at Avon Old Farms resign. School to be taken over by army for rehabilitation of blind veterans.

1946

Theodate Pope Riddle dies.