Phoebe Stanton

Phoebe Baroody Stanton (1914–2003) was an American architectural historian, professor and urban planner.

Phoebe Baroody was born in 1914 in Carroll County, Illinois, into a Lebanese-American family.

She was raised in Chicago.

At the age of 14, she traveled to Lebanon for the first time.

She received her B.A. degree in 1937 from Mount Holyoke College, and her M.A. degree in 1939 from Radcliffe College.

She attended Stanford University for additional graduate work.

During World War II, she worked for the Board of Economic Securities.

She received her PhD in 1950 from Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London.

At Courtauld, she studied under Nikolaus Pevsner and John Summerson.

She was married to Daniel J. Stanton, a city planner; and in 1954 they moved to Chinquapin Parkway in Baltimore.

Stanton was an outspoken supporter of Baltimore's architecture and advised the city on design.

She taught at Johns Hopkins University, from 1955 until 1982.

Stanton was outspoken about the architectural history and design for the city of Baltimore.

She wrote and published three books.

She was faculty and taught at Johns Hopkins University, from 1955 until 1982.

She also occasionally taught at Reed, Goucher, and Bryn Mawr colleges.

In 1963, she became involved with the city's planning and preservation issues.

Stanton died at 88 on September 24, 2003, in a Baltimore hospital due to complications from heart disease and emphysema.