Background
Howe, Lois Lilley was born on September 25, 1864 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Estes and Lois (Lilly) Howe.
Howe, Lois Lilley was born on September 25, 1864 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Estes and Lois (Lilly) Howe.
Howe studied at the Museum of Fine Arts School from 1882-1886. She later studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied with fellow female student Sophia Hayden. Howe graduated in 1890.
After graduation she worked in the offices of Allen and Kenway. She placed second in a competition to design the Women"s Building at the Chicago World"s Fair. Howe opened her own architect office in 1894.
In 1913 she partnered with Eleanor Manning and in 1926 Mary Almy joined the firm which then became Howe, Manning & Almy, Incorporated.
Foreign a short time around 1920, the landscape architect Elizabeth Greenleaf Pattee worked for Howe. During her career, Howe was president of the Business Women"s Club of Boston and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women"s Association.
Howe retired in 1937 when Howe, Manning & Almy, Incorporated. dissolved. Lois Lilley Howe"s papers reside in the collection for Howe, Manning, and Almy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Lois Lilley Howe photographic collection is housed at the Cambridge Historical Society.
Fellow (member emeritus) American International Assurance. Member emeritus Boston Society Architects, Copley Society Boston, Boston Society Arts and Crafts, Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association (treasurer), Cambridge History Society (Second vice president), Visitor School Boston Museum Fine Arts. Clubs: Women's City, Saturday Morning (honorary), Cambridge Plant.