Alice Upham Smith

Alice Upham Smith (4 April 1908–12 December 1998) was a writer, botanical illustrator and one of the earliest professional American women landscape architects.

Early life and education She was born Alice Upham in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1908, the daughter of Thomas and Anna I. Upham. From 1927 to 1928 she studied at Carleton College from 1927 to 1928, and afterwards at the University of Minnesota (1929), the University of Edinburgh (1930), and Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (1931–2), the first institution that provided women with graduate training in the professions of architecture and landscape architecture in a single faculty. In 1933 she married Dr Eastman Smith.

Later life and death Upham Smith moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas, in the early 1960s and continued to practise professionally there. She donated notebooks, photographs of her designs, sketches, drawings and articles (published between 1939 and 1987) to the University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections in 1992, and died in Mountain Home, aged 90, in 1998.