Helen Davis

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Helen Sellers Davis (born April 20, 1912 in Mobile - died April 10, 2008 in Birmingham) was the first licensed female architect in Alabama.

She was born in Mobile but grew up in Anniston, where her father had a medical practice. She graduated from Ward-Belmont School in Nashville, Tennessee and went on to enroll in the School of Architecture at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

While a student she married fellow architect Charles F. Davis, Jr. After graduating they both joined the Birmingham firm of Miller, Martin and Lewis, Architects. They worked there for three years and then moved to the firm of Van Keuren, Davis & Company (now known as Davis Architects). In the 1960s she left the firm to open her own practice.

Davis was a deacon and elder at South Highland Presbyterian Church and taught the "Wannabees" Sunday School class for 10 years. When she died in 2008 she was survived by a brother and sister, two sons, a daughter, one grandchild and four great-grandchildren.

References

  • "Helen Sellers Davis" (April 13, 2008) obituary. Birmingham News
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