Zina Bethune collection on Louise Bethune

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Zina Bethune collection on Louise Bethune

1860-1962

https://findingaids.lib.buffalo.edu/repositories/2/resources/883

Documents the life and work of the first American professional woman architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune. Includes records on the Bethune and Dubke families, the life and work of Dr. Charles William Bethune (Louise Bethune's son), and photographs of the Blanchard family.

18 linear feet

eng, Latn

State University of New York at Buffalo. Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11675676

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Bethune, Louise, 1856-1913

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Louise Blanchard Bethune, FAIA, was the first woman to practice as a professional architect in the United States. She participated in the design of approximately 180 (known) buildings in the Buffalo and Western New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and she was the first woman member of the Western Association of Architects (W.A.A.), the American institute of Architects (A.I.A.) and the first woman to be honored as an A.I.A. Fellow. She was born in Waterloo, New York. Bla...