{{Short description|Canadian architect}} {{Infobox person | name = Jean Hall | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Jean Hall | birth_date = 1896 | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = 1982 | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Architecture | education = University of Toronto | employer = | occupation = | title = | predecessor = | successor = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | awards = }} '''Jean Hall''' (1896–1982) was a Canadian architect, the second woman to graduate from the architecture program from the University of Toronto in 1923 after Esther Hill. She was the first Canadian trained female architect to design a building in Canada, which is a fourplex built in 1925 through her father's building firm.<ref name=cwahi>{{citation |title=HALL, Jean |url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=5696 |journal=Artist Database |publisher=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative}}</ref> She was considered talented in mechanical drawing and painting.<ref name=ftr/>
==Education== Hall graduate from General Arts at the University of Toronto, and did not feel that an art degree would suit her career.<ref name=ftr>{{citation |title=For the Record: The First Women in Canadian Architecture |first=Joan |last=Grierson |publisher=Dundurn |date=Mar 31, 2008}}</ref> and then went on to begin her training in architecture in 1917 with support and encouragement of her father.<ref name=iawa/> During her studies in 1922, she served as the vice-president of the University Architectural Club. Shortly after graduation, she designed the landmark fourplex located at 63 Jerome Street in Toronto ({{coord|43.660855|-79.457266|display=inline|scale:1000}}) located in the West bend neighbourhood in High Park North.<ref name=cwahi /> thumb|The fourplex at 63 Jerome Street Toronto designed by Jean Hall
==Career== Hall was employed as an artist until 1927, but was to unable to launch her profession in architecture despite her initial success.<ref name=cwahi/> Although Hall made many tries she could not find work in architecture, this was made worse due to the Great Depression, which resulted in the closure of her father's firm.<ref name=iawa>{{citation|journal=International Archive of Women in Architecture |title=Jean Hall |publisher=Virginia Tech |url=https://iawadb.lib.vt.edu/view_all.php3?person_pk=186&table=all }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She also worked as a medical claims processor for Toronto's Workmen's Compensation Board.<ref name="iawa" />
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