Cynthia
Lenz Bostick

(1934–1992)

Bostick was born in Barrington RI and grew up in Mt. Kisco NY. She took mechanical drawing in high school and got a degree in architecture from IIT in Chicago, studying under Mies van Der Rohe. She worked for a year for McKim, Mead, and White in New York. She married and moved to Kannapolis NC in 1957 where her husband Seth started an optometry practice. At that time, she was one of four women architects in North Carolina. Bostick was employed with J. N. Pease in Charlotte for five years, planning buildings and doing site supervision. In 1966 she taught mechanical drawing at A. L. Brown High School. She had two children, Cathy and Charlie.