Commission 700: Paul, Miss Anne M., 1927, Records of Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. and the papers of Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning O’Connor, and Mary Almy, MC-0009. Department of Distinctive Collections.
Howe, Manning & Almy: The Changing Face of Architecture
A new exhibit will celebrate the first-known all-women architecture firm in Massachusetts, founded in 1900 by Lois Lilley Howe, the first woman to graduate with an architecture degree from MIT. Howe, along with architects Eleanor Manning and Mary Almy, completed more than 900 commissions throughout the course of their company’s history. The exhibit will look at the role MIT’s architecture program played in supporting women in the field since the 1890s, as well as Howe, Manning & Almy’s influence on the built environment of Cambridge and the firm’s ecofriendly approaches to renovation. See it in the Maihaugen Gallery August 19-December 10, 2026.
Libraries Streamline Search Experience
MIT Libraries staff are developing an improved online search experience that provides more comprehensive results from across multiple catalogs and systems. Library users will get a single, integrated view of results from across all MIT Libraries systems – including books, articles, archives, databases, geographic information systems (GIS) data, the DSpace@MIT repository, and more. The new search is part of a larger strategy to transform how users experience the Libraries’ digital spaces, making them more efficient, accessible, and even delightful.
