Marion Mahony Griffin
American architect
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Alice Hands
Co-founder of the US’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.
Elsa Gidoni
Elsa Gidoni fled Berlin in 1933, but spent five years in Tel Aviv designing buildings in the International Style before moving to New York in 1938.
Hilde Reiss
Bauhaus-trained architect Hilde Reiss was among the émigrés who served as ambassadors for the new style in the United States. In 1946, she was hired by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to serve as the curator of its new Everyday Art Gallery, one of the first museum spaces in the country devoted to modern design.
Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan is arguably the best-known female architect in the United States. Although millions of visitors have admired Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, Morgan’s architectural legacy is found throughout the state, where she designed more than seven hundred buildings during her long and prolific career.
Louise Blanchard Bethune
In 1881, Buffalo native Louise Bethune became the first woman architect in the United States to open her own firm.
Mary Gannon
Co-founder of the U.S.’s first female architectural partnership in 1894.
Margaret Phelan
20th century Irish local historian
Flora Mitchell
20th century Irish painter
Marion Donovan
Inventor of the disposable diaper