A native of Washington, D.C., Noyes studied at the Corcoran School of Art in that city; she also had lessons with Charles Webster Hawthorne.
She exhibited widely, and her work is held in numerous public and private collections.
[2] Noyes lived at 610 21st Street NW for many years; it was there, in 1916, that she founded the Arts Club of Washington.
[3] She was long involved with the organization, heading the committee that ultimately relocated it to its current location on I St., NW.
[4] In 1936 she commissioned an armillary sphere from C. Paul Jennewein, after an initial design by Paul Manship, to be erected in Meridian Hill Park as a memorial to her father Isaac and sister Edith; it is currently missing.