Project Publications
For Homeowners and Housekeepers:
The Architecture of Minerva Parker Nichols in Late 19th Century America
In Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture
Forthcoming 2021
"Lady Architect": The Work and Writings of Minerva Parker Nichols in Late 19th Century Philadelphia
In Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
January 2019. Available here.
Mill-Rae (Rachel Foster Avery House)
National Register of Historic Places Nomination
January 2017
Minerva Parker Nichols: Architect Of Gender Equality
Hidden City Daily
October 2016. Available here.
Viva Minerva! Celebrating America’s First Independent Female Architect
Hidden City Daily
October 2016. Available here.
Specialization and Significance: Assessing the Career and Works of Minerva Parker Nichols
Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania
May 2012. Available here.
Talks + Events
Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides
Preserving Minerva: (Re)Discovering the Work of Minerva Parker Nichols
November 12, 2020
Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage
Passionate Pursuits, Reviving the Past: Minerva Parker Nichols
October 16, 2020
Carpenter Company of Philadelphia
Minerva Parker Nichols
July 22, 2020
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
Preserving Minerva:
(Re)Discovering the Work of Minerva Parker Nichols
April 28, 2020
Women in Architecture, AIA Philadelphia
Minerva Parker Nichols
April 17, 2020
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Preserving Minerva:
(Re)Discovering the Work of Minerva Parker Nichols
Originally scheduled for March 17, 2020; postponed due to COVID-19. New date TBD.
KieranTimberlake Architects
Minerva Parker Nichols
March 6, 2020
University of Virginia School of Architecture
Preserving Minerva:
(Re)Discovering the Work of Minerva Parker Nichols
November 15, 2020, as part of the symposium "Architectural History at the University of Virginia: Richard Guy Wilson and Our Community of Scholars"
Lower Merion Conservancy
Lady Architect: The Career of Minerva Parker Nichols (1862 - 1949)
April 9, 2019
Society of Architectural Historians, Philadelphia Chapter
Minerva Parker Nichols (1862 - 1949)
May 16, 2018
Smith College
Minerva Parker Nichols (1862 - 1949)
April 9, 2017