Helen Eugenia Parker

Helen Eugenia Parker (1909-c.1940) was an American architect.

Helen Eugenia Parker
Born(1909-11-17)November 17, 1909
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect

Early life and career

Parker was born to contractor Walter Eugene Parker and Willie Parker in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on 17 November 1909.[1] The family of seven later moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.[1] When graduating in 1926 from Wiley High School-College in Marshall, Texas (known as Wiley College today), she was a top student.[1] It is also likely she attended Howard University in Washington, D.C.[1][2]

Later career

Parker briefly returned to Little Rock. There, she taught mathematics in the segregated public high school, served as a librarian at the segregated library, and consulted for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.[1]

Around 1930s, Parker moved to Detroit, Michigan.[1][2] There, she was an instructor for the Shop Drafting Training Program, part of the National Youth Administration of Works Progress Administration.[1] As well as a drafter for the first two registered architects of color in Detroit, Alfonso R. Feliciano (1883-1940) a Puerto Rican graduate of Universidad de Barcelona, and Donald Frank White.[1] She was associate architect for Trinity Hospital in Detroit,[1] a black hospital which closed in 1962.[3]

Parker was a board member of the Peter Pan Nursery.[1] She was also active in professional associations, including Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the National Technical Association, and the Detroit Youth Assembly.[1]

Death

Parker died after 1940.[1]

References
  1. Sarto, Constance E. (2004). Wilson, Dreck Spurlock (ed.). African-American architects: a biographical dictionary, 1865-1945. Routledge. pp. 436–437. ISBN 0203493125. OCLC 60712152.
  2. Charles., Witsell (2014). Architects of Little Rock, 1833-1950. Wittenberg, Gordon., Parins, Marylyn Jackson. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9781610755450. OCLC 880408687.
  3. "Little Known Black History Fact: Detroit's Trinity Hospital". Black America Web. 2015-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
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