Lilian Jeannette Rice

Lilian Jeannette Rice was an ecoconscious, early 20thcentury American architect working primarily in the California Spanish colonial style. Several of her works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places under spelling variation Lilian Jenette Rice.

Rice was the daughter of Julius Augustus Rice and Laura Rice and was born in National City, California, ten miles north of the Mexican border in South Bay, San Diego County. She was a direct patrilineal descendant of Edmund Rice an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1906, she entered the University of California and successfully completed her Bachelor of Letters Degree in Social Science with a major in architecture in 1910. In 1911 she completed a course in teaching there. She returned to National City, where she worked for several years in the office of San Diego architect Hazel Wood Waterman. She later taught geometric drawing at Russ High School and then at San Diego State Teachers College .

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