Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882-1973) was the first licensed woman architect in Ohio and a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Woman's Party, serving as its Financial Chairwoman in 1921. She was the first woman to study architecture at Ohio State University (1901-1902.) Her first major commission was for the first women’s dormitory at OSU, Oxley Hall. Florence was the only female architect practicing in central Ohio until 1930. Her career extended throughout her lifetime, and her studio was on the third floor of the house she designed for her family at 878 Franklin Avenue in the Olde Towne East neighborhood of Columbus. Florence was very active in the women’s suffrage movement on local and national levels and made a plea to suffragists in a manuscript entitled “Women Awake!” Her sister, Gillette Rector (1880-1929), was a pioneering dentist and periodontist in the early 20th century and also active in the suffrage movement.