Background
Hicks was born in 1858 and attended Cornell University, where she got a Bachelor of Arts in 1878 and then a bachelor of architecture degree in 1880.
Hicks was born in 1858 and attended Cornell University, where she got a Bachelor of Arts in 1878 and then a bachelor of architecture degree in 1880.
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
She was the first woman to receive an architectural degree from Cornell, one year after Mary L. Page became the first woman in the United States to receive an architectural degree from a university. While still a student at Cornell, one of her projects, a workman"s cottage, was published in American Architect and Building News (1878). lieutenant was republished in The Builder and Wood-Worker in 1883.
Her "commencement essay" on tenement housing has been cited by one historian for its concern for such critical features as light and air that were often overlooked by other contemporary architects.
In 1880, Hicks married architect Arthur Karl Volkmann, who had graduated from Cornell in 1877. She died prematurely three years later in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 25.
