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A Woman with Designs for the Future
Timeline:1900s1910s1920s
Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973) enrolled at The Ohio State University in 1901 and was one of the first female architects in Ohio. She was the only female architect practicing in Central Ohio between 1900 and 1930 and was active in the suffrage movement.
"She made history happen. She broke down barriers in a male-dominated profession of architecture."