McCoy, Esther (Personal Name)

Her Five California architects, 1960.

A constructed view, 1994: t.p. (Esther McCoy) jkt. (d. 1989; architectural historian of Southern California)

Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1910)

California, Death Index, 1940-1997 via Ancestry.com, April 3, 2020: (Esther McCoy Tobbey ; b. 18 Nov 1904, Kansas ; d. 30 Dec 1989, Los Angeles)

New York Times web site, April 3, 2020: Dec. 31, 1989 (Esther McCoy, an architectural historian and critic, died of emphysema on Friday at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 85 years old. She was born in Coffeyville, Kan., and was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. She began her career in New York writing architecture reviews for a number of publishers. She worked as a draftsman in the Hollywood office of R. M. Schindler from 1944 to 1947 and began writing about the architects she had come to know) https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/31/obituaries/esther-mccoy-is-dead-architecture-critic-85.html

Find a Grave WWW site, viewed October 24, 2021 (Esther Tobey, née McCoy, aka Esther McCoy; architectural historian and critic; specialist in West Coast architecture; committed leftist; born in Horatio, Sevier County, Arkansas, grew up in Coffeyville, Kansas, and was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan; Husband: Berkeley Greene Tobey (1881-1962) married 1941. They lived for a while in Ensenada, B.C.N., Mexico; with image of New York times obituary which says she was survived by a stepson Forrest Tobie [sic]) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172951863/esther-tobey