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16-853: Born in Horatio, Arkansas , Esther McCoy was raised in Kansas . She attended the Central College for Women , a preparatory school in Lexington, Missouri , before a college career that took her from Baker University to the University of Arkansas , then to Washington University in St. Louis , and finally the University of Michigan . She left the University of Michigan in 1925, and by 1926 was living in New York City and embarking on

32-719: A long and varied writing and teaching career, she died in December 1989. In 1929, McCoy began to publish fiction in magazines such as The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar , as well as in university quarterlies. Her short story "The Cape" was featured in The Best American Short Stories of 1950. In 1924, McCoy met author Theodore Dreiser , and for more than a decade she researched him. She wrote novels, short stories, and screenplays during her years in New York and after moving to Los Angeles. She continued to write fiction into

48-500: A writing career. In 1932 McCoy was diagnosed with pneumonia and headed West for Los Angeles to recover. She purchased a bungalow in the Ocean Park section of Santa Monica in the late 1930s, where she lived for the remainder of her life, although she traveled widely. During World War II , McCoy worked as a draftsman for R.M. Schindler after being discouraged from applying to USC 's architecture school due to her age and sex. After

64-686: Is no transit service in Horatio, intercity bus service is provided by Jefferson Lines in nearby Lockesburg . Case Study Houses The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra , Raphael Soriano , Craig Ellwood , Charles and Ray Eames , Pierre Koenig , Eero Saarinen , A. Quincy Jones , Edward Killingsworth , Rodney Walker , and Ralph Rapson to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for

80-590: The Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution . In March 2012, East of Borneo Books published Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader , the first collection of McCoy's writings, edited and with an essay by writer Susan Morgan. Horatio, Arkansas Horatio is a city in Sevier County , Arkansas , United States. The population was 1,044 at the 2010 census . Horatio

96-654: The University of Southern California and at UCLA and transcribed and cataloged Richard Neutra 's papers in the UCLA archives. In addition to her work in California, McCoy wrote extensively on Italian architecture , making several extended trips there during the 1950s and 1960s, and she was curator of an exhibition entitled Ten Italian Architects which was mounted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . In recognition of her research and writing on Italian architecture,

112-600: The 1960s, though her first significant article on architecture had been published in 1945. McCoy and a friend, Allen Read, co-authored a series of detective novels under the pseudonym "Allan McRoyd." McCoy was also a journalist and active member of the Left who wrote for Direction , Upton Sinclair 's EPIC [End Poverty in California] News , and the United Progressive News . From 1950 until she died in 1989, McCoy

128-717: The Italian government in 1960 awarded her the Star of the Order of Solidarity. McCoy's last work was an essay for the catalog of an exhibition on the Case Study Houses which was mounted by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art . She died in Santa Monica in December 1989, one month before the exhibition opened. Her extensive collection of papers, slides, and photographs, are held by

144-659: The United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers. The program ran intermittently from 1945 until 1966. The first six houses were built by 1948 and attracted more than 350,000 visitors. While not all 36 designs were built, most of those that were constructed were built in Los Angeles , and one was built in San Rafael , Northern California and one in Phoenix , Arizona. Of

160-422: The age of 18 living with them, 52.3% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.7% were non-families. 26.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.22. In the city, the population was spread out, with 31.2% under

176-462: The age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.4 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 27,419, and the median income for a family was $ 31,000. Males had a median income of $ 26,339 versus $ 15,547 for females. The per capita income for

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192-504: The city was $ 11,738. About 12.6% of families and 13.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 16.6% of those under age 18 and 22.1% of those age 65 or over. Public education is provided to elementary and secondary students by the Horatio School District leading to graduation at Horatio High School (grades 7–12) after matriculating Horatio Elementary School (grades prekindergarten through sixth). While there

208-495: The city. The population density was 546.0 inhabitants per square mile (210.8/km ). There were 423 housing units at an average density of 231.6 per square mile (89.4/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 84.95% White , 2.71% Black or African American , 1.81% Native American , 0.20% Asian , 8.53% from other races , and 1.81% from two or more races. 14.94% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 377 households, out of which 38.2% had children under

224-747: Was Five California Architects , the first work to bring to the attention of a wide audience the works of pioneer California modernists Charles and Henry Greene , Irving Gill , Bernard Maybeck , and the Los Angeles-based Austrian emigre Rudolf Schindler . This book was followed by others devoted to the Case Study Houses sponsored by Arts & Architecture , Schindler's fellow emigre Richard Neutra , and architects Craig Ellwood , Calvin C. Straub , among others. During this era, she also wrote catalogs for gallery and museum exhibitions devoted to modern California architecture and contributed essays to numerous other exhibition catalogs. She lectured at

240-539: Was a frequent contributor to John Entenza 's Los Angeles-based magazine Arts & Architecture , to Architectural Forum , Architectural Record , and Progressive Architecture , as well as to European magazines such as L'Architectura and Lotus . She also wrote pieces on architecture for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner . Her first major book, published in 1960,

256-549: Was founded in 1895. For several years until at least 1905, Horatio was a sundown town , where African Americans were not allowed to live. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km ), all land. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 920 people, 375 households, and 252 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2000, there were 997 people, 377 households, and 265 families residing in

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