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Minerva Parker Nichols - The Search for a Forgotten Architect
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The untold story of America’s first independent female architect
 Minerva Parker Nichols (1862–1949) was the first American
woman to practice architecture independently. Her specialty was
residential spaces—though her commissions also included an iron
foundry and a macaroni factory—and she was a significant figure
in the design of the emerging railroad towns just outside of
Philadelphia, where she was in active practice from 1883 until
1896. She was also a writer, teacher, and active participant in
several reform movements of the era. Creating an archive in the
absence of one, this book recovers Nichols’s forgotten story to
document a career that spanned seven decades, engaging with
contemporary questions about absences in the historical record, the
challenges of architectural history and preservation, and the need
for new tools and frameworks to address these gaps. A catalogue
raisonné of her completed architectural works includes
illustrations drawn from historical materials as well as newly
drawn plans for five of her most significant designs. Archival
material, paired with new photography documenting more than 30
extant buildings in the Philadelphia and beyond, offer a full and
fully illustrated reconstruction of Nichols’s life and career.
Distributed for the Architectural Archives of the University of
Pennsylvania
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