"Hidden Home"
107 Overlook Road
Year Built: 1918-19
Architect: Helen Binkerd Young
Style: Tudor Revival
Helen Binkerd Young, the only woman graduate in the 1900 Cornell architecture program, began teaching home design in the Home Economics Department in 1910. Unable to secure a position as an architecture professor because of prevalent social prejudice against women architects, she did succeed in designing several homes in Cayuga Heights, among them, her own house, "Hidden Home," that she designed in collaboration with her husband, architect George Young.
Societal and institutional obstacles to women in the practice of architecture impeded her career. In 1910, she listed herself in the U.S. Census as having "no occupation." By 1930, the Nineteenth Amendment having been passed ten years earlier, she listed herself as "architect."
It is difficult to determine all of the homes Helen Young designed in Cayuga Heights. Click here for a compilation of six homes attributed to the talented architect.
Read more about Helen Binkerd Young's career in Sara Johnson's A Pioneering Woman: Helen Binkerd Young, Preservation News, Volume 40, pp. 13-14,Winter 2008.
107 Overlook Road
Year Built: 1918-19
Architect: Helen Binkerd Young
Style: Tudor Revival
Helen Binkerd Young, the only woman graduate in the 1900 Cornell architecture program, began teaching home design in the Home Economics Department in 1910. Unable to secure a position as an architecture professor because of prevalent social prejudice against women architects, she did succeed in designing several homes in Cayuga Heights, among them, her own house, "Hidden Home," that she designed in collaboration with her husband, architect George Young.
Societal and institutional obstacles to women in the practice of architecture impeded her career. In 1910, she listed herself in the U.S. Census as having "no occupation." By 1930, the Nineteenth Amendment having been passed ten years earlier, she listed herself as "architect."
It is difficult to determine all of the homes Helen Young designed in Cayuga Heights. Click here for a compilation of six homes attributed to the talented architect.
Read more about Helen Binkerd Young's career in Sara Johnson's A Pioneering Woman: Helen Binkerd Young, Preservation News, Volume 40, pp. 13-14,Winter 2008.
