She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1919 after three years of study.

[2] Prior to her education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Almy designed a summer home for her family on Cape Cod.

[3] Almy worked as a drafter at a London based architectural firm called Collcutt and Hamp, for two years.

In the 1920s, she became a drafter for the Boston firm owned by Lois Lilley Howe and Eleanor Manning, who had also attended MIT.

[3][6] Howe, Manning, and Almy were the subject of a dissertation defended in 1976 at Boston University by Gail Morse.