Howe, Lois Lilley, 1864-1964
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Architect, of Cambridge, Mass.; attended MIT School of Architecture, the only woman in a class of 65 males, completing the program in 1890. In 1893 opened what would soon become the only all-female architectural firm in Boston and in 1894 designed her first house, the Alfred C. Potter residence in Cambridge. Her firm expanded becoming successively Lois Lilley Howe & Manning in 1913 and Howe, Manning & Almy in 1926 as draftsmen Eleanor Manning and Mary Almy were taken on as partners. The firm is best known for its largely Colonial Revival domestic architecture. Firm disbanded in 1937. Over its 43 year history the firm executed some 426 commissions, about a fifth of which were located in Cambridge, many in the Brattle Street area.
From the description of Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection, 1884-1912. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 463292329
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Subjects:
- Architecture, Domestic
- Architecture
- Architecture and women
- Children
- Clergy
- Colonial revival (Architecture)
- Dwellings
- Fireplaces
- Fires
- Flowers
- Furniture
- Historic buildings
- Holidays
- Interior architecture
- Landscape photography
- Photography
- Poor
- Women
- Women as architects
- Women-owned architectural firms
Occupations:
- Women architects
- Women photographers
Places:
- New Hampshire--Tamworth (as recorded)
- Cambridge (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--Photographs (as recorded)
- New England (as recorded)
- Mariemont (Ohio) (as recorded)
- Tamworth (N.H.) (as recorded)
- Chocorua, Mount (N.H.) (as recorded)
- Charles River (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--Cambridge (as recorded)
