Saturday Morning
May 10, 2025, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Minnesota Humanities Center
Making Room: Women’s Histories from the Northwest Architectural Archives
Cheryll Fong, Keynote Speaker
This year’s annual meeting presentation features Cheryll Fong, who will speak about a current exhibit on women architects that she curated for Northwest Architectural Archives (NAA) along with Jane King Hession, Kimberly Long Loken, and exhibit designer Darren Terpstra.
Among the vast holdings of the Northwest Architectural Archives at the University of Minnesota are the histories of women in architecture whose talents have enriched the field in countless ways. Many of these women, particularly those who were educated and practiced during the early decades of the 20th century, are little known today. The goal of this exhibit is to shine a light on these talented and determined women who made room for themselves in a field once reserved exclusively for men.
The path to becoming an architect was not an easy one for pioneering women in the field. Architecture schools were slow to accept women as students. Even when armed with degrees in architecture, women faced an uphill battle when it came to finding employment.
Cheryll hopes that through this exhibit the NAA can further facilitate the collection and preservation of more comprehensive records on the lives, careers, and achievements of Minnesota’s women architects, and to encourage additional research and documentation of those histories that have not yet been told. The exhibit remains open through Friday, May 30, 2025.
Cheryll Fong is the curator of the Northwest Architectural Archives.
Date and Place
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Minnesota Humanities Center
987 Ivy Avenue East
Saint Paul, MN 55106
9:30 a.m. Breakfast
10:30 a.m. Annual Meeting
11:00 a.m. Keynote Presentation
12:00 p.m. Adjourn
Cost
$30 for MNSAH members
$40 for nonmembers
Registration
Register online via Eventbrite or
Mail your check (payable to MNSAH) to:
MNSAH
c/o Bob Frame, Treasurer
178 Goodrich Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55102
Deadline: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Note: Members who wish to attend the annual meeting and presentation, but not the breakfast, may do so at no cost. Please notify MNSAH at [email protected] if you plan to attend only the meeting and presentation.
Menu
Hot Breakfast Buffet
Directions
From Highway 35E, exit onto Maryland Avenue, proceed east 1.7 miles to Earl Street, turn left and go four blocks to Ivy Avenue East, turn left and the Humanities Center will be on your right.
