Ninomiya House
Ninomiya House is one of the five Friedman Complex apartment buildings. Tei Ninomiya was the first Asian student to graduate from Smith. Born in 1887 in Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan, she graduated from Smith in 1910 at a time when a college education for a young woman from another country was considered remarkable. Upon graduating, Ninomiya returned to Japan and spent much of her adult life contributing to her community as a teacher, Red Cross worker and administrator for the YWCA of Japan.