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Fulton Hobson's ultimate goal, however, was more than simply providing guidance to architectural education or instructions on how to recognize and respond to prejudices. She cautioned her reader that becoming a female architect should not be viewed as an end in itself. Fulton Hobson's main concern was that future female architects would consider what it means to be both a woman and an architect in one person. The struggle to become an architect is merely a means to an end of becoming what she considered to be her true identity and self-fulfilment.

Little is known about her latter employment at the Belfast Corporation and her private practice. Among the latter were renovations to McCullough's music shop on Howard Street in Belfast (1913) and the Glendun Lodge near Cushendun (1914) for Ada McNeill, a family friend. She built her first house at Carnalea, near Belfast, in 1914-15, and two more on the same site in 1920-21. She constructed a second house in Carnalea and a cottage in Killiney, near Dublin, around 1921. The 1927 article "Ireland's First Women Architect" was the sole publication that displayed and analysed Fulton Hobson's residences.

In 1930, Florence owned the craft store "Dunluce Handcrafts" in Bushmills, Co. Antrim, and retired in 1937. In 1947, Florence married the 12-years younger William Forbes Patterson, who was 55 years old when they married. The couple lived in Crawfordsburn, Co. Down, at Carnalea. Florence was the primary source of income, having run tearooms and a craft shop in Portrush and the craft store in Dunluce, Co. Antrim, after retiring. Neither company was particularly profitable. Florence died on the 1st of November 1978 at the age of ninety-six, at 23 Ballymullan Road, Crawfordsburn, Co. Down.