“We just really felt that it was important to capture these stories, before they disappeared, even when finding information proved very difficult. You see how history sort of evaporates—and then it’s like it doesn’t exist. These women deserve to be known, but they’re not known. Some of these women would have faded away, if we hadn’t caught the one existing granddaughter, or somebody, who could then lead us to some other information.”” -curator Jillian Storms, AIA — whatweekly
EARLY WOMEN OF ARCHITECTURE IN MARYLAND
Wanting to learn and share more about local trailblazers in their own field, the members of the Women in Architecture Committee of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Baltimore Chapter have launched an extensively detailed exhibit entitled “Early Women of Architecture in Maryland” which is on display downtown at the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library until January 16.
The exhibit features 12 innovative women who did architectural work in Maryland from the 1920s through the 1960s. They include Rose Isabel Greely (the first licensed female architect in Washington, DC) and Katherine Cutler Ficken (the first licensed female architect in Maryland) as well as two women architects who are alive today; Helen Ross Staley (94 years old) and Shirley Kerr Kennard (87 years old).
Bindeman Residence, Bethesda, MD, by Chloethiel Woodard Smith, Architect, 1966
Article by JESSICA KIM COHEN
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