Minerva Parker Nichols
Encyclopedia
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.
Louise Blanchard Bethune
Louise Bethune , born Jennie Louise Blanchard in Waterloo, New York, was the first American woman known to have worked as a professional architect. The Blanchard family moved to Buffalo, New York when Louise was a child. She graduated from the Buffalo High School in 1874 and was planning on going...
) American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
female architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
who established a successful, although brief, business and recognition, and the first one who did so without partnership or assistance of a man.
Notable buildings
- New Century Club (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Buckingham Browne & NicholsBuckingham Browne & NicholsBuckingham Browne & Nichols School, often referred to as BB&N, is a private school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by the Charles River. The school educates students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade. It was established by a merge of two independent schools, the Buckingham School founded...
school, Cambridge, MassachusettsCambridge, MassachusettsCambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
(1894)