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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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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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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."
178:, 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.
201:. 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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1872, Sturgis and Brigham; 1902, Lois Lilley Howe. 25 Reservoir St.
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