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Jean Bodman Fletcher (1915 – 1965) was an American architect who was a founding member of the Architects' Collaborative
The Architects' Collaborative

The Architects' Collaborative was an United States architectural firm formed by Walter Gropius and seven younger architects in 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
. She graduated from Smith College
Smith College

Smith College is a Private university, Independent school Women's colleges in the United States Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Northampton, Massachusetts....
 in 1937, and finished her architectural training at the Cambridge School in 1941, an architecture school for women affilitated with Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 and Smith.

With her husband, Norman C. Fletcher she entered and won many residential architecture competitions. The Fletchers joined forces with another architectural couple, John C.






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Jean Bodman Fletcher (1915 – 1965) was an American architect who was a founding member of the Architects' Collaborative
The Architects' Collaborative

The Architects' Collaborative was an United States architectural firm formed by Walter Gropius and seven younger architects in 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
. She graduated from Smith College
Smith College

Smith College is a Private university, Independent school Women's colleges in the United States Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Northampton, Massachusetts....
 in 1937, and finished her architectural training at the Cambridge School in 1941, an architecture school for women affilitated with Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 and Smith.

With her husband, Norman C. Fletcher she entered and won many residential architecture competitions. The Fletchers joined forces with another architectural couple, John C. Harkness & Sarah P. Harkness
Sarah P. Harkness

Sarah Pillsbury Harkness is an United States architect. She was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts.She attended the Smith College Graduate School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1940....
, also alumni of Harvard and Cambridge. With their mentor Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a Germany architect and founder of Bauhaus who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
 formed the Architects' Collaborative
The Architects' Collaborative

The Architects' Collaborative was an United States architectural firm formed by Walter Gropius and seven younger architects in 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
 after winning a dormitory design competition for Smith College
Smith College

Smith College is a Private university, Independent school Women's colleges in the United States Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Northampton, Massachusetts....
.

Jean Bodman Fletcher died of breast cancer on September 13, 1965 at age 50.