Ruth Alsop (1879 – 1976) was the first woman qualified as an architect in the Australian state of
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The second youngest of the eight children of John and Anne Alsop, she was born in
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, a suburb of
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. She began work at her younger brother
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's firm Klingender & Alsop in 1907; she completed her articles in 1912. She continued to work with the firm until 1916, when she was forced to resign to take care of her parents, who were both ill. Alsop remained registered as an architect until 1927.
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She designed a house in ]Croydon
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where she lived with her sisters Edith, an artist, and Florence, a journalist, until the 1950s.
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1879 births
1976 deaths
Australian women architects
People from Victoria (state)
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