The Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society (BECHS) is hosting a must-see lecture on the life and times of Louise Blanchard Bethune, America's first professional woman architect, on Wednesday, March 3, at 7 p.m.
Louise Bethune, of Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs, was the accomplished Buffalo architect who reportedly designed the the Iroquois Door Co. (1904) at 659 Exchange Street in the Hydraulics. This is the same landmark described in Reyner Banham's Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture as "a model of puritanically stern, rectangular discipline, achieved by using concealed metal angles for the spans and plain stone sills under the windows." From BECHS:
Louise Blanchard Bethune was a trailblazer in the world of architecture. Hear Kelly Hayes McAlonie, AIA, share how Bethune became the first woman to join the American Institute of Architects and how she designed Buffalo’s Lafayette Hotel, the 74th Regiment Armory on Virginia Street and many of the city’s school buildings.
The lecture will be essential to anyone interested in architecture, engineering, and the professional advancement of women. The cost is only $6. Proceeds help support the ongoing and important work of the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society.
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