Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — Minerva Parker, Architect. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Minerva Parker, Architect.

A young lady architect only 22 yearn is Miss Minerva Parker, who ban achieved the distinction of having her

plans accepted for the Queen Isabella Pavilion in connection with the Ladies’ Department of the World’s Fair. / Miss Parke*was bom in Chicago, but she has been educated at Philei delphia. The young I lady has a profitable

minerva parker. business, having already designed a number of artistic homes in that city’s suburbs. Besides Miss Parker there is only one othear lady architect in the United States,. Mrs. Louisa Bethune, of Rochester,. N. Y.