Helen Eugenia Parker is the first known Black female architect in Detroit. She was born in Pine Bluff, Ark., and came to Detroit in the 1930s to teach drafting through the Works Progress Administration. She also drew plans for architect Donald White, Michigan’s first licensed Black architect, and architect Alfonso R. Feliciano.

Parker was the associate architect for Trinity Hospital, a facility for Black patients at 681 E. Vernor Hwy., which closed in 1962 and no longer stands.