In 1994, she was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
Weinzapfel was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
Jane Hanson Weinzapfel was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Tucson, Arizona.
She was an apprentice in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Earl Flansburgh, Weinzapfel worked with Wallace Floyd Ellenzweig Moore, Inc. where notable projects included the Multiple Mirror Telescope at Mt.
Hopkins, AZ and the Alewife Multimodal MBTA Station, Cambridge, MA.