Architect
Name: Linda Fern Grubb
Date of Birth / Location: November 22, 1944 / Maryville, Missouri
Education: Bachelor of Architecture, Kansas State University, 1968
Date of Death / Location: Coffin & Scherschel, Barrington, (as an intern) 1969-1972, (as an architect) 1972-1974; Linda F. Grubb & Associates, 1974-Present
Professional Organizations & Activities: Joined AIA, 1977
Awards & Honors: Recipient Excellence Award Architectural Woodwork Institute, 1982
Elizabeth Kimball Nedved (1928). Courtesy of Chicago Daily News.|Exterior of Avery Coonley School (1929). Courtesy of Jean Follett.
Name: Elizabeth Kimball Nedved
Date of Birth / Location: October 26, 1897 / Chicago, Illinois
Date of Death / Location: April 8th, 1969
Education: Studied interior decorating at the Church School of Art in Chicago, 1916-1918; Northwestern University, c.1920; University of Illinois, 1921-1922; Armour Institute, 1922-1925. She earned her architectural degree in 1925 from the Armour Institute. She received her architectural license in 1928.
Date of Death / Location: In 1926, Elizabeth and her husband Rudolph James Nedved opened their own architectural office, seemingly devoted to residential architecture. The firm was known as Kimball and Nedved Architects. In 1928, the Nedved partnered with architects John Hamilton and William Fellows forming the firm Hamilton, Fellows, and Nedved. Elizabeth was considered the silent partner. It is unclear how actively Elizabeth worked after WWII, but she did request readmittance to the AIA in the early 1960s, at which time she was readmitted. Elizabeth also worked as an interior decorator for Marshall Field & Co, as well as a draftsman for architects Tallmadge & Watson.
Professional Organizations & Activities: One of the first women graduates from Armour Institute (now IIT). In 1927, Elizabeth was admitted as the first women member of the American Institute of Architects. Nedved was one of only 30 women AIA members until 1940.Elizabeth and her colleagues Juliette Peddle and Catherine Heller created an exhibit that modeled a nursery and a kitchen for the 1927 Women's World Fair held in Chicago. Thier efforts inspired the formation of the Women's Architectural Club of Chicago in the same year. in 1931, Elizabeth was elected the President of the Women's Architectural Club. In 1932, she was elected vice preseident of the same club.
Mary Louisa Page in 1878- courtesy of Illinois Distributed Museum
Name: Mary Louisa Page
Date of Birth / Location: January 27, 1849 / Metamora, Illinois
Date of Death / Location: October 21, 1921 / Kansas City, Missouri
Education: University of Illinois, 1874-1879. She earned her Certificate of Architecture in 1878 and her Bachelor of Sceince in Architecture in 1879. She was the first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in North America from the University of Illinois, 1879.
Date of Death / Location: Partner with Whitman & Page
Professional Organizations & Activities: Page served as the secretary of Capital City Abstract & Title Insurance in 1892. Apparently having moved west at some point, Page was active in the Women's Temperance Union, and in 1905 was elected as the vice president of Western Washington Women' s Christian Temperance Union, serving in that capacity until 1909. She also served as an instructor at Blue Printing and Abstracting in Olympia, Washington.
Name: Gloria R. Oskvarek
Professional Organizations & Activities: Joined AIA in 1976
Suzanne Morgan- Courtesy of Sharing Sacred Spaces
Name: Suzanne Morgan
Education: Bachelor's of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Master's of Business Administration, University of Chicago.
Date of Death / Location: Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM); Loebl Schlossman & Hackll. Morgan also had her own practice.
Professional Organizations & Activities: Founder and Current President of Sacred Spaces International. Joined AIA in 1978.
Awards & Honors: In 2015, Ms. Morgan was the Fetullah Gulen Award recipient by the Chicago-based Niagara Foundation for the use of religious architecture for pursuit of world peace
Mary Ann Crawford in front of the Lindberg Construction Company building that she designed. Courtesy of the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Name: Mary Ann Elizabeth Crawford
Date of Birth / Location: 1901 / Girard, Illinois
Date of Death / Location: December 19, 1988 / Springfield, Illinois
Education: Bachelor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1929; Master's of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1930.
Date of Death / Location: Holabird and Root, 1930s; Rand McNally, 1930s; Historical American Building Survey Work, 1930s; Montgomery Ward, n.d.; Private Practice, beginning in 1959; Designed offices, factories, displays, and machinery for Lindberg Engineering Company in the 1940s.
Professional Organizations & Activities: Chair of the Women’s Architectural Club; Officer for the Society of Western Engineers; Licensed Architect with the State of Illinois, 1941; Licensed Engineer with the State of Illinois, 1943. In 1978, some of Crawford's student drawings were featured in the "Chicago Women Architects: Contemporary Directions" exhibition at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. In 1980, her drawings were the focus of a solo exhibition titled "American Beaux-Arts" at the Frumkin-Struve Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
Kristine Fallon- courtesy of The Chicago Network.
Name: Kristine K . Fallon
Date of Birth / Location: January 28, 1949
Date of Death / Location: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1977; A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc., 1984-1993; Kristine Fallon Associates, 1993-2018
Professional Organizations & Activities: Principal Investigator, Art Institute of Chicago, Collecting, Archiving, and Exhibiting Digital Design Data study; Advisor to the MIT Facade Study; Smart Alliance Board; College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, 1995; Member of the Chicago Network since 1988
Awards & Honors: Ed Forrest Award for Excellence in Design/Construction Automation, 2001; Elected to College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1995 in recognition of her work enhancing the technological proficiency of the profession.
Name: Adelaide Eunice Benham Hulla
Date of Birth / Location: 1871 / New York
Date of Death / Location: 1961
Education: Wellesley College, 1884-1890; AB from Cornell University, 1887-1890; Bachelor's of Science in Architecture, Chicago School of Architecture (a joint program with the Armour Institute, now Illinois Institute of Techonoly IIT, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), 1902. Thesids: "A Group of University Buildings."
Date of Death / Location: According to 1938-39 Cornell Alumni directory, Adelaide was in joint practice of architecture at 104 S Dearborn in Chicago, Illinois and in the 90 Schiller Building, Chicago, Illinois with her husband John Hulla.
Professional Organizations & Activities: Adelaide was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. (Courtesy of Martin Tangora)
Greta Lederer (1957). Courtesy of the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Name: Greta Lederer
Date of Birth / Location: c. 1912 / Michigan
Date of Death / Location: October 26, 1976 / Highland Park, Illinois