History
Founded in 1870 at the Illinois Industrial University (now the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the School of Architecture was established under the Polytechnic Department under the proposal by Regent John Milton Gregory. Founded a few years after the Architecture Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and after Architecture classes began at the University of Pennsylvania, it is the third oldest architecture school in the United States. Nathan Clifford Ricker was the first student in the school and later became the first graduate with an architecture degree granted by an American institution.
Together with the Architecture Program at Cornell University, the school is also known to be one of the first to award an architecture degree to a female in the United States. Mary L. Page, graduated in 1878, was the first woman to earn that honour.
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