Nichols (Rose Standish) is born in Boston.

The daughter of Dr. Arthur and Elizabeth (Homer) Nichols, Rose Standish Nichols grows up at 130 Warren Street, then moves with her family to 55 Mount Vernon Street. She becomes a landscape architect, studies horticulture at the Bussey Institute, drawing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in France and England. Nichols becomes the founder of the International Society of Pen Pals, one of the founders of the League of Small Nations, and is a member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association. She dies in Boston in 1960, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Her Beacon Hill home becomes a museum in 1961.