Monthly Archives: August 2016

Mary Louise Schmidt: Architecture’s “Fairy Godmother, Patron Saint and Guardian Angel”
Fairy godmothers are rarely the subject of history and you have to look hard to find Mary Schmidt’s name among the giants of architecture. She is not mentioned in an online history of the Architects Building at Fifth and Figueroa, which she financed and had built,[1] nor is her work as the organizer of the […]