A. Hays Town (1903 - January 6, 2005) has been called the "Premier Architect of the South". He grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as Southwestern Louisiana Institute, and Tulane University Architecture School in New Orleans in 1926. Town then went to Jackson, Mississippi, to work with Noah Overstreet; becoming his partner. During the this tenure, he surveyed the historical homes...
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A. Hays Town (1903 - January 6, 2005) has been called the "Premier Architect of the South". He grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as Southwestern Louisiana Institute, and Tulane University Architecture School in New Orleans in 1926. Town then went to Jackson, Mississippi, to work with Noah Overstreet; becoming his partner. During the this tenure, he surveyed the historical homes of Mississippi. Among his designs in Jackson is Bailey Junior High School.
A. Hays Town established a successful commercial practice in Baton Rouge in 1939, but in the 1960s at an age when many people are considering retirement, he turned to his abiding passion – residential architecture. Throughout this chapter of his career, he perfected and expanded his inimitable style and emerged as one of the most prominent architects in the South.
“Without Hays Town, the architecture of Louisiana might well have dissipated into the mainstream. Instead,...
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