Sallie Smith
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Sallie T. Smith (born in Columbus, Mississippi) may have been the first female practicing architect in Birmingham.
Smith graduated from Verona College in Verona (Lee County), Mississippi and was trained in architecture by her father, W. S. Smith. In the 1880s she worked in Birmingham as the "junior member" of the firm of W. S. Smith & Co.
Sallie Smith attended the meeting at the offices of Sutcliffe, Armstrong & Willett during which the Alabama Association of Architects was formed, and she was appointed treasurer of that organization.
See also
- Carolyn Smith (1894-1987), believed to be the first female architect to practice on her own in Birmingham
- Helen Davis (1912-2008), the first female registered architect in Alabama
- Marguerite Spink, a female architect practicing with her father in the early 1900s.
References
- "Association of Alabama Architects" (April 1887) The Inland Architect Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 46-47
- "W. S. Smith & Co." (1888) in North Alabama (Illustrated) Birmingham: Southern Commercial Publishing Co., p. 105