Lucy Doolittle Thomson

Lucy Doolittle Thomson (July 13, 1868 – September 20, 1943) was an American writer, historian and architect. She was among the first females to graduate from a four-year architectural school in the U.S.

Ms. Thomson received a BA in humanities from Smith College in 1890 and a BS in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1896.

Women in the field of architecture were rare at the time. According to a list of early American female architects, she was the 12th woman to receive a degree in architecture in the U.S. and the seventh to graduate the M.I.T. program.

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