Henrietta Cuttino Dozier

Who is Henrietta Cuttino Dozier?

Henrietta Dozier was an American architect in Atlanta, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida. She is considered the first female architect in the state of Georgia and was the first woman in the Southern United States to receive form architectural training from a national school of architecture. She designed churches, schools, government buildings, apartments and houses.

Dozier graduated with an architectural degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, one of three women in a class of 176. She worked in Atlanta for 13 years before moving to Jacksonville in 1914. She belonged to the Church of the Good Shepherd.