- Minerva Parker Nichols
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Minerva Parker Nichols (1860-1949) was the second (after Louise Blanchard Bethune) American female architect who established a successful, although brief, business and recognition, and the first one who did so without partnership or assistance of a man. [1][2]
Notable buildings
- New Century Club (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols school, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1894)[2]
References
- ^ Minerva Parker Nichols: A First American Woman Architect
- ^ a b editor, Edward T. James, editor ; Janet Wilson James, associate editor ; Paul S. Boyer, assistant (1974). Notable American women, 1607-1950 : a biographical dictionary (3. print. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.. pp. 630. ISBN 0674627342.
Categories:- 1860 births
- 1949 deaths
- American architects
- American women in business
- American architect stubs
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