Harriet Abigail Morrison Irwin (1828 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina – 1897 Charlotte, North Carolina) was an American architect and the first American woman to patent an architectural design. On August 24, 1869, she submitted a patent, categorized under the Improvement in the Construction of Houses, for a residential design proposal of a hexagonal house. Her husband and brother-in-law would go on to form a company to construct houses based on her design in the Charlotte area.
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1828 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, U.S.
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1897 (aged 68) Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
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