Background
Helen French was born Helen Douglass in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1900.
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After school, she worked at various firms in Boston and eventually traveled to Europe, where she studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, returning to the United States in 1927.
Career
She earned her graduate degree in architecture at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Massachusetts in 1921. They worked with architect Clarence Martin for ten years while in Sarasota. The couple then moved to San Francisco when Prentiss was employed by the United States. Army Corps of Engineers during World World War World War II There, French received her California certification in 1946.
The couple worked in the same office in San Francisco until the 1960s, working together and independently on projects throughout Northern California.
She also served as secretary for the Mill Valley Parks and Recreation Commission. She died in 1994. The archives of the Prentiss" lie in the collection of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.
Membership
French was a member of the American Institute of Architecture Northern California Chapter, the San Francisco Planning and Housing Association, the Outdoor Arts Club of Mill Valley, the Marin Art and Garden Center, and the Women"s League of San Francisco.
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