Emily Post was an American author, novelist, and socialite who wrote about etiquette.
Post in 1912
Portrait of Post by Emil Fuchs, now housed in the Brooklyn Museum
Bruce Price was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York, influenced Modernist architects, including
Emily Post
…etiquette. Post was born Emily Bruce Price in Baltimore, Maryland, possibly in October 1872. The precise date is unknown. Her father was the architect Bruce Price, famed for designing luxury communities. Her mother Josephine (Lee) Price of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was the daughter of Washington Lee, a wealthy…
William Kent Cottage, Tuxedo Park, New York (1886, demolished).
W. Chanler Cottage, Tuxedo Park, New York (1885–86, altered). Frank Lloyd Wright may have modeled his Oak Park house and studio after these two cottages.
Welch Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1891)