Only the second woman to graduate from the architectural program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Marion Mahony Griffin (1871- 1962) was the first licensed woman architect in Illinois and an important exponent of the Prairie Style of architecture developed by Frank Lloyd - Wright. In 1895, the year after she graduated from MIT, she went to work at Wright's studio. She quickly gained international recognition for her brilliant architectural draftsmanship and the unusual beauty of her renderings. While she worked for Wright she designed several important projects, not all of which were fully credited to her during her lifetime. (In an unpublished autobiography, The Magic of America," she discussed her work at Wright's studio and recorded her contributions.) One of her earliest projects was the Church of All Souls (1903), a Unitarian chapel in Evanston, Illinois, which incorporates Gothic design elements with the Prairie...