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Marion Alice Parker
Drafter, Architect
1875?-1936

Commissions she worked on (some of which were her own carried through the P&E accounting system):

• Carl O. Jorgenson residence (Bismarck, North Dakota  1911)
• Buxton bungalow (Owatonna, Minnesota  1912)
• Business Women's Dormitory, project (later revised and built by Parker; Minneapolis, Minnesota  1912)
• First National Bank, alterations (Bismarck, North Dakota  1912)
• J. S. Ulland,  alterations (Fergus Falls, Minnesota  1919)
• Accounting number (1919), for the Business Woman's Dormitory as her separate project

Images

Office photograph (seated, back left)

Detail from office photograph

Marion Alice Parker-Frank P. Stover House Marion Alice Parker, architect Fort Collins, Colorado 1920s?

Texts

• Biographical note, by William Gray Purcell
• Mention by Purcell in Parabiographies entry for First National Bank alternations (Bismarck, North Dakota  1912)
• [cabin article]

Other Resources

• Marion Alice Parker collection (University of Minnesota Libraries)

A small group of drawings at the Northwest Architectural Archives contains drawings for Parker's work on two commissions that were essentially her own but carried on the P&E accounting system: J. S. Ulland, alterations (Fergus Falls, Minnesota 1919) and Business Woman's Dormitory for Gratia Countryman (Minneapolis, Minnesota 1919).

• A thesis has been done on Parker by Nicole Watson at the University of St. Thomas (2008)

References

• Note of Parker, with comments by Purcell, appears in The First American Women Architects by Sarah Allaback (University of Illinois Press, 2008), pp. 165-166.