Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs frame dwelling drawings, April 1902.

Bethune, Robert Armour.

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Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs.

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Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was the first professional woman architect in the United States. Bethune served a five-year apprenticeship in the Buffalo architectural firm of Richard A. Waite and F.W. Caulkins beginning in 1876 before setting up a firm with her husband, Robert Armour Bethune, in 1881. William L. Fuchs was invited to be a partner in the practice in 1890 and the name became Bethune, Bethune and Fuchs. Some of Louise Blanchard Bethune's most well-known designs built in Buffal...

Fuchs, William L.

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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...