They had the financial backing of one of America's wealthiest suffragists, Alva Belmont, who left the National Association behind, putting her fortune into the new NWP instead.
White paint glass walls flat roofs all became features of modernist architecture The finish architect Alva Alto designed a celebrated sanatorium in pimeo.
Alva Belmont was a socialite and multi-millionaire who had accumulated her fortune through her marriages to railroad magnate William Vanderbilt and banking heir Oliver Belmont.