Helen Binkerd Young

• Name — Helen Binkerd Young • Birth Name — Helen Dorsey Binkerd • Born — 19 April 1877 • Birthplace — Dayton, Ohio, U.S. • Died — 22 May 1959 • Place of death — Berkeley, California, U.S. • Spouse — George Young Jr. (married November 29, 1902) • Occupation — Architect • Years Active — 1900–1946

Helen Dorsey Binkerd was born on April 19, 1877, in Dayton, Ohio, to Oscar William and Emma (née Brown) Binkerd. She attended the high school of Pratt Institute from 1892 to 1895 and went on to attain a Bachelors in Architecture from Cornell University in 1900, winning a medal for her drawing in that same year.

• Illustration — Faculty of the Cornell University home economics department in 1914. Seated, from left, are Helen Binkerd Young, Annette J. Warner, Flora Rose, Martha Van Rensselaer and Blanche Hazard (Mrs. Sprague). Standing, from left, are Claribel Nye, Helen Knowlton, Anna Hunn, Grace Fordyce (Mrs. Fox), Ethel L. Phelps, Clara Browning and Bertha Titsworth. On November 29, 1902, she married George Young, Jr. in Brooklyn, New York City, (August 24, 1878 – January 15, 1956), a fellow architect. After their marriage, the couple lived for a brief time in New York City and Pittsburgh before returning to Ithaca, New York in the fall of 1909 when George was offered a position at Cornell University as Assistant Professor of Architecture. Unable to find work as an architect, or teaching architecture, Young took an unpaid position teaching in the Department of Home Economics at Cornell. Young utilized her knowledge and training in architecture in her courses, stressing that of the three fundamental parts of domestic science, housing design was critical for properly organizing the work of a home. The second element, purposeful furnishings and fixtures, was also important for developing an environment conducive for both health and productivity. In addition to her college lectures, Young lectured at homemaker's conferences in various locations in the state. During this time, she also published several extension bulletins on similar themes, as well as participating in interviews for newspapers, such as the New York Times. In 1918, she and George jointly designed "Hidden Home", their residence on Overlook Road, which was featured in the April 27, 1927, edition of The American Architect magazine. While few of her works have been identified, it is probable that her work was obscured by joint projects with her husband or other male colleagues.The Winter 2008 issue of Historic Ithaca's Preservation Quarterly stated that her work may have been co-projects with her husband and that her work "remained hidden". In a 2015 blog, written by the producers of the podcast show "Stuff Mom Never Told You" a listener identified her home as one that was built by the husband and wife team George and Helen Young, according to the signed plans In 1920, Young was finally made a full professor, but she left the Department of Home Economics in 1921 to work as an architect and according to her obituary, she designed many of the homes in Cayuga Heights, New York. Her husband noted in 1926 that he had been contacted to design a home in New York and was uninterested, but that Young might be. In 1946, George retired from Cornell and the couple moved to California Novato, California, where he died in 1956.

Young died on May 22, 1959, in Berkeley, California and was buried in Ellenville, New York.

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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1877 at Dayton. The same evidence establishes that helen Binkerd Young died in 1959 at Berkeley.