Mabel Keyes Babcock
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| Born | May 20, 1862 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | December 3, 1931 (aged 69) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mabel Keyes Babcock (May 20, 1862 – December 3, 1931) was one of America's early women landscape architects.[1] She taught at Wellesley College and the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, before going on to become Dean of Women Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, on May 20, 1862, Mabel Keyes Babcock was the daughter of botanist Henry H. Babcock and Mary Porter (Keyes) Babcock.[1][3] She was a descendant of William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth Colony.[3] Both of her parents were involved in education: Henry was for a time the principal of Somerville High School in Massachusetts, while Mary, after Henry died, became the headmistress of Kenilworth Hall, a girls' school in the Chicago area.[1]
Babcock earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in 1889.[3] Twenty years later, she resumed her education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from which she received a B.S. degree in 1908 followed by an M.S. in architecture in 1909.[2][3] MIT was said to be the only institution offering this qualification to women at that time.[4] At MIT, she had studied with Guy Lowell.[2][5]