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dissolved and her partners launched independent practices. Long after she finished practicing architecture, she continued to practice history, giving talks at the
Cambridge Historical Society, trying to recall for younger members Cambridge as it was in her girlhood. Howe died in 1964, just short of
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During her career, Howe was president of the
Business Women's Club of Boston and president of the MIT Women's Association. She served on the Boston Society of Architect's Small House Bureau, the AIA Committee on Small Houses, and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Housing Association of
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completed over 426 commissions, 500 projects (most of which are still in existence) over 43 years of practice. Lasting designs, careful craftsmanship, first-rate materials, and desirable locations have made their houses some of the most comfortable and attractive dwellings, as well as some of the
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Cambridge, MA. This home was dates to 1894 and was created by Howe for her newlywed friends. While the original building showed Howes untested design skills, in 1913 she renovated the home to the one still found today.
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Originally, Howe founded her firm in Boston on
Tremont Street in Boston taking commissions for renovations and new housing. One early renovation was the Hooper-Eliot House in 1902, where she "added the broken scroll–pedimented doorway."
167:, which, by virtue of its land grant status, was one of only six American schools of architecture that admitted women before 1910. Howe graduated in 1890. In a class of only 66 students, she was the only woman.
190:. She had a passion for history and architecture details, which emerged not only in her work, but also in a book she published in 1913 with Constance Fuller, another MIT graduate, entitled
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Lois Lilley Howe's papers reside in the collection for Howe, Manning, and Almy at MIT. The Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection is housed at the
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She received her first acclaim in 1893 where she was a second place winning in the national competition for the Woman's
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from 1882-1886 rather than attending
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Lois Lilley Howe House (1889-1964), 6 Appleton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (National
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238:(AIA). In 1931, she was elected the first female Fellow of the AIA.
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1872, Sturgis and Brigham; 1902, Lois Lilley Howe. 25 Reservoir St.
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Howe, Lois (December 1963). "An Alumna's Architectural Career".
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most exceptional investments, in these geographic areas today.
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Many of their designs were featured in articles and books of
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Pioneering Women of American Architecture, Lois Lilley Howe
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A City’s Life and Times: Cambridge in the Twentieth Century
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Metropolitan Boston. Howe was 73 when she retired in 1937;
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194:. In 1913, she partnered with
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505:. The MIT Press, 2016.
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