Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher

Elizabeth R. Hirsh Fleisher (August 28, 1892 – June 8, 1975) was the first woman architect to pass exams to become a registered architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the fourth woman to do so in the state.

Early years

Elizabeth R. Hirsh Fleisher was born in Philadelphia on August 28, 1892 to Harry B. Hirsh, founder of Belmont Iron Works, and Minnie Rosenberg Hirsh. In 1910, she graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls and in 1914, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College. During her time at college, she studied abroad at the University of Berlin between 1912 and 1913. In 1917, she served as the president of the Philadelphia Wellesley Club.[1] In 1929, she obtained her Master of Architecture from the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Again, she studied abroad during her time at graduate school at the University of Oxford in 1928.[2]

Career

The Parkway House in Philadelphia

She partnered with Gabriel Roth in 1941 to establish Roth & Fleisher, and they worked together until she retired in 1958.[2] They built factories, theaters, apartment buildings and automobile showrooms. She is known for designing the Parkway House in Philadelphia.[3][4]

She is buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery, Philadelphia.[5]

Marriage

Elizabeth was married to landscape architect Horace Fleisher.[2]

References

  1. ↑ The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly. Wellesley College Alumnae Association. October 1917. pp. 50–51. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Fleisher, Elizabeth R. Hirsh (1892 - 1975) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings". www.philadelphiabuildings.org. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  3. ↑ "Fleisher Architecture Memorial: Remembering the Woman who Crafted the Parkway House". hiddencityphila.org. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
  4. ↑ Samuels, Gayle Brandow; Beard, Lucienne; Libby, Valencia (1994). Women in the City of Brotherly Love, and Beyond: Tours and Detours in Delaware Valley Women's History. G.B. Samuels.
  5. ↑ "Elizabeth R Hirsh Fleisher". Find a Grave. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
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