Helen French

Helen Douglass French (1900–1994) was an American architect. She worked together and independently with her husband, landscape architect Prentiss French.

Personal life and education

French was born Helen Douglass in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1900. In 1921, she earned her graduate degree in architecture at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Massachusetts.

French was a member of the American Institute of Architecture Northern California Chapter, the SPUR, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, the Outdoor Arts Club of Mill Valley, the Marin Art and Garden Center, and the Women's League of San Francisco. She also served as secretary for the Mill Valley Parks and Recreation Commission.

French died in 1994. The archives of the Prentiss' lie in the collection of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.