On this day in 1869: Harriet Morrison Irwin, a frail and bookish Charlotte homemaker, becomes the first woman granted a patent for an architectural design — a hexagonal house. One advertisement touts Mrs. Irwin’s hexagon as applying “the principle of bee-building to human architecture,” but it wins few converts. Her model home in Charlotte’s Fourth […]
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‘Principle of bee-building’ applied to house design
Posted in On This Day, tagged charlotte nc, Harriet Morrison Irwin, hexagonal houses, women architects on August 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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