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This is a timeline of pioneering women in American architecture. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines such as landscape architecture and city planning are listed. It is mostly limited to women born in or before 1900.

19th century

General

• Mother Joseph Pariseau (1823–1902) designs numerous buildings in the Pacific Northwest area of North America.

1860s

• 1869 — Harriet Morrison Irwin (1828–1897) patents the design of a six-sided house.

1870s

• 1878 — Mary L. Page (1849-1921) becomes the first American woman to graduate with an accredited architecture degree in the United States, with a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1880s

• 1881 — Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1913) opens an architecture office in Buffalo, New York, in partnership with her husband, becoming the nation's first professional woman architect.
• 1888–89 — Louise Blanchard Bethune becomes the first woman associate of the American Institute of Architects (1888) and then its first woman fellow (1889).

1890s

• 1890 — Sophia Hayden Bennett (1868–1953) becomes the first woman to graduate from MIT in architecture.
• 1892 — Sophia Hayden Bennett designs the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition.
• 1893 — Norma Bonniwell (1877–1961) designs the Thomas B. Finley House.
• 1894 — Marion Mahony Griffin (1871–1961) becomes one of the earliest women to receive a degree in architecture, with a degree from MIT.
• 1894 — Gannon and Hands, the first partnership of women architects in America, is founded by Mary Gannon (b. 1867) and Alice Hands.
• 1895 — Beatrix Farrand sets up a practice as a landscape architect in New York.
• 1897 — Josephine Wright Chapman (1867-1943) sets up her own architectural practice in Boston.

20th century

General

• Hazel Wood Waterman (1865–1948) was was one of Southern California's first woman architects, working in an Arts and Crafts style.
• Josephine Wright Chapman (1867–1943) designed buildings including Tuckerman Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, and set up her own solo practice.
• Emily Williams (1869–1942) built a number of residences in northern California.
• Henrietta Cuttino Dozier (1872-1947) was the first female architect in the state of Georgia.
• Mary Rockwell Hook (1877–1978) was one of the first women architects in Kansas City.
• Leola Hall 1881–1930) built well over 50 residences in Berkeley and Oakland, California, following the 1906 earthquake.
• Ruth Maxon Adams (1883–1970) designed buildings in New England for several decades starting in 1915.
• Ida McCain (1884–unknown) designed houses in Portland, Oregon, from 1909 to around 1914, and in the Bay Area from 1915 to the late 1920s.
• Anna Keichline (1898–1943) was the first registered female architect in Pennsylvania and inventor of the "K brick", a precursor of the modern concrete block.
• Edith Northman (1893–1956) was an early Southern California woman architect, working from the mid 1920s to the 1940s.
• Marion Manley (1893–1984) was a Florida architect.
• Elizabeth Ayer (1897–1987) was a pioneering architect in Seattle, Washington. and was the first woman to be registered as an architect in Washington State.

1900s

• 1901 — Theodate Pope Riddle (1868–1946) designs the Hill-Stead Museum. She later bcomes the first woman to be a licensed architect in both New York and Connecticut.
• 1901 — Lois Howe (1864–1964) becomes the second woman member of the American Association of Architects (after Louise Blanchard Bethune), later (1931) being elected a fellow.
• 1902 — Julia Morgan (1872–1957) becomes the first woman to receive an architectural degree from École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
• 1903 — Fay Kellogg (1871–1918) sets up her own practice in New York.
• 1905 — Henrietta Cuttino Dozier becomes the third woman member of the American Association of Architects
• 1907 — Emily Helen Butterfield (1884–1958) becomes the first woman architect licensed in Michigan.
• 1907 — Mary Rutherfurd Jay (1872–1953), one of America's earliest landscape architect, receives her first commission.
• 1907(?) — Ida Annah Ryan (1873–1950) becomes the first woman in the United States to receive a master's degree in architecture (from MIT).
• 1908–09— Ida Annah Ryan opens the first women's solo architectural practice in the United States. When she invites Florence Luscomb (1887–1985) into the practice in 1909, it becomes the second women’s architectural partnership in the U.S.
• 1909 — Mabel Keyes Babcock (1862–1931), one of America's early women landscape architects, earns a degree in architecture from MIT.

1910s

• 1913 — Lois Howe and Eleanor Manning (1906–1986) form the first all-women architectural firm in Boston. In 1926, Mary Almy (1883–1967) joins the partnership.
• 1914 — Elisabeth Martini (1886–1984?) becomes the first woman to be the sole owner of an architectural firm in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1914 — Marcia Mead (1879–1967) forms the New York-based partnership of Schenck & Mead with Anna P. Schenck (1874–1915), making it the third women's architectural partnership in the U.S.
• ca. 1914–17 — Alice Constance Austin (1868–ca. 1930) designs the visionary planned community of Llano del Rio.
• 1915 — Lilian Bridgman (1866-1948) becomes a licensed architect in California.

1920s

• 1920 — Bertha Yerex Whitman (1892–1984) becines the first woman to graduate in architecture from the University of Michigan.
• 1921 — Elizabeth Ayer becomes the first woman to graduate from the professional architecture program at the University of Washington.
• 1921 — Emma Brunson (1887-1980) becomes a licensed architect in Minnesota.
• 1921 — Ethel Furman (1893–1976) becomes the earliest known African-American female architect in Virginia.
• 1923 — Margaret Fritsch (1899–1993) becomes the first female graduate of the University of Oregon School of Architecture. Three years later she will become the first licensed female architect in the state of Oregon.
• 1924 — Katharine Budd (1860-1951), already a practicing architect for 30 years, is admitted as the first woman member of the New York chapter of the AIA.
• 1925 — Rose Greely becomes the first female licensed architect in Washington, D.C.
• 1926 — Margaret Fritsch becomes the first licensed female architect in the state of Oregon.
• 1928 — Bertha Yerex Whitman and Juliet Peddle found the Women's Architectural Club of Chicago.

1930s

• 1921 — Elizabeth Ayer becomes the first woman registered as an architect in Washington state.
• 1930–1937 — Gertrude Comfort Morrow (ca. 1888-1983) works with her husband on the design of the Golden Gate Bridge.
• 1935 — Juliet Peddle (1899-1979) becomes the first woman architect licensed by the state of Indiana.
• 1939 — India Boyer (1907-1998) becomes head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' architecture department.

1940s

1941 — India Boyer becomes the first woman to pass Ohio's architectural licensing exam.