Biographical Note
The firm Chloethiel Woodard Smith & Associated Architects was operated by award-winning architect Chloethiel Woodard Smith as principal from 1963 to 1982. The firm's most influential work in Washington, D.C., was the urban renewal project carried out in the Southwest quadrant. Most of the designs produced for the Southwest quadrant project are represented in the Smith & Associated Architects architectural drawing archive (Library of Congress). Other projects designed by Smith, either in private practice or as a partner in several other firms, include the United States Chancery and Ambassador's residence in Asuncin̤, Paraguay; the unbuilt Consolidated Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Beltsville, Maryland; La Clede Town, a riverfront neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri; and the unrealized master plan for Arverne in Queens, New York. Before organizing Chloethiel Woodard Smith & Associated Architects, Smith was in partnership with Arthur H. Keyes, Jr., Nicholas Satterlee, and Francis Lethbridge in the firm of Keyes, Smith, Satterlee & Lethbridge from 1951 to 1956 and with Nicholas Satterlee in the firm of Satterlee & Smith from 1956 to 1963.