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JPHS Presenting Play About JP Woman Who Was First to Graduate MIT with Architecture Degree

In 1891, a 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago — and while that should have been the beginning of a great career for Sophia Hayden — her life’s story ended being quite harrowing.