Beth Marsh ’24

Architectural Designer at Warrenstreet Architects

Concord, New Hampshire

Beth Marsh ’24 discovered her dream job by playing a video game. 

The architectural designer at Warrenstreet Architects in Concord, New Hampshire, explains, “It seems silly, but I played Minecraft a lot with my four older siblings, and I'd always look at their bases and be like, ‘They're so much better than mine. Why?’ So I started to Google ‘How to design better Minecraft houses’ until I was just studying how building design works. Eventually I realized I really like designing spaces people live in.”

Beth even wrote her college entrance essay on the topic. “I basically said, ‘Hear me out. I know it’s weird, but I figured out I want to study architecture because of Minecraft,’” she says, laughing. “I enjoyed that element of designing living spaces to be practical, efficient and well organized, but also beautiful. I've always been good at math, physics, analytical space planning and logical thinking, as well as the creative aspects like choosing colors and designs and textures, so architecture was a really good blend of my interests.”

Beth, who is from Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, majored in architectural studies and minored in historical costume design at Conn. She was also a scholar in the Creativity Pathway. For her self-designed minor, she created costumes under the guidance of Associate Professor of Theater Sabrina Notarfrancisco. “Even though costume design is not directly related to architecture, it's still a lot of 3D design,” Beth explains. “One of the things I loved about Conn was the Connections program and the fact that I wasn't locked into studying the one thing that I was planning on doing. I could explore all these other interests at the same time.”