Background
Sara Holmes Boutelle was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She was the daughter of John Horace and Marie Heloise (Adams) Holmes.
Sara Holmes Boutelle was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She was the daughter of John Horace and Marie Heloise (Adams) Holmes.
Boutelle pursued college education at Mount Holyoke and Hamburg University.
Boutelle taught art and architecture at the Brearley School in New York. She became fascinated with research into Morgan’s work and discovered that Morgan had designed nearly 800 buildings. Boutelle’s research and publication of Morgan’s work earned complimentary reviews and according to one peer, “put the spotlight on women in architecture, especially on Julia Morgan”.
On June 6, 1936, Sara married William Eugene Boutelle. Theu had three children: William Eugene, Jonathan Holmes, Christopher Curtis.