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Who was co-founder of the National Organization of Minority Architects and served as its first president?
1. William Smith
2. Jerome Campbell
3. George Carver
4. Calvin Beard
Jerome Campbell
After graduating from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1956, Jerome Campbell developed an expertise in urban renewal and affordable housing developments and started his own firm in 1966. In 1971, Campbell co-founded the National Organization of Minority Architects and served as its first president.
What architect was considered the most respected bridge builder in the 19th century in the Deep South?
1. Howard Cummings
2. Horace King
3. Hiram Allen
4. Stephen Dayes
Horace King
Horace King, born in slavery in South Carolina in 1807, became an architect, engineer, and noted bridge builder who constructed dozens of bridges in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.
Who was the first black graduate of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and designer of several buildings on the Duke University campus?
1. Wallace Rayfield
2. MArshall E. Purnell
3. Robert R. Taylorr
4. Julian Abele
Julian Francis Abele was one of America’s most important architects, working as chief designer with one of the most prominent American architects, Horace Trumbauer. Abele designed the west campus of Duke University, including the university chapel, the Allen Administration Building, and the Duke Indoor Stadium. Duke's main quad was renamed the Abele Quad in 2016. Unfortunately, he was not publicly acknowledged in his lifetime.
What Black architect helped to build Ebony and Jet Magazine headquarters?
1. John Warren Moutoussamy
2. Ronald Joseph Brown
3. James A. Chaffer
4. Ronald Joseph Brown
John Warren Moutoussammy
John Warren Moutoussammy graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1948; in 1971 he designed the headquarters building for the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, which was the first high-rise building designed by an African American.
What architect was known as the “architect to the stars”?
1. Lee E. McCowan
2. Jason Mitchell
3. Ronald D. Lipford
4. Paul R. Williams
Paul R Williams
Paul Revere Williams was a Southern California legend who designed over 2,000 homes in his more than 50 year career, including those for numerous celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lon Chaney, Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Correll, and many more.
Who was the architect elected to two terms as the first black Mayor of Charlotte from 1983 to 1987?
1. Harvey Gantt
2. Harry Brown
3. Harvey Boseman
4. Howard Cummings
Harvey Gantt
In 1963, Harvey Gantt became the first African American admitted to Clemson University where he earned a degree, with honors, in the School of Architecture. Later he became the first black mayor of Charlotte and in, the 1990s, he ran twice for the United States Senate against Jesse Helms, losing both times
Who was the first elected African American president of the American Institute of Architects?
1. Marshall Purnell
2. Amaza Lee Meredith
3. Watha T. Daniel
4. Peter Cook
Marshall Purnell
Marshall Purnell was elected in 2007 as the first African American architect to serve as the national president of the American Institute of Architects in 150 years; an organization that did not allow Black membership until 1923.
What black architect’s firm was responsible for the design of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, as well as Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture?
1. Robert Cumming
2. Vernell Edwin Barnes
3. J. Max Bond, Jr.
4. Calvin Brent
Max Bond Jr. was a Harvard educated architect who travelled, studied and worked internationally before working with a prominent firm to design a number of iconic cultural buildings, including, just before his death, the museum component at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
Who was a brick mason in the 1890s and, without formal education, by the 1900s became a contractor and architect--and a leader of Charlotte's Black community?
1. Calvin Bent
2. W. Smith
3. William Carver
4. Charles Beard
W. Smith
William W. Smith was not a designer, but rather an on-site architect. He and his wife were instrumental in founding Grace African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Charlotte NC. In 1902, Smith built a sanctuary for the church and also did the masonry work for North Carolina's first public library founded for Black citizens.
Who designed several buildings on the campus of Howard University as well as the Langston Terrace Dwellings in Washington D.C?
1. Hilyard Robison
2. Julian Francis Abele
3. Horance Trumbauer
4. Walter T. Bailey
Hilyard Robison
Hilyard Robinson, in addition to designing buildings on Howard University campus, also built the Langston Terrace Dwelling, the first federally funded housing complex in the D.C. and the second in the U.S.
Who is believed to be the first Black woman licensed as an architect in the United States?
1. Robyn M. Fleming
2. Beverly Loraine Greene
3. Lyda Haith
4. Beverly K. Hannah
Beverly Loraine Greene
Beverly Loraine Green, who earned a degree in architecture engineering from the university of Illinois and a Masters in Architecture from Columbia University, was licensed in 1942 and became the first known woman registered as an architect in the U.S
Who was the first black architect to receive a federal commission/contract?
1. William Sidney Pittman
2. Frank Lloyd Wright
3. William Joseph Clement
4. Paul Revere Williams
William Sidney Pittman
William Sidney Pittman, the son-in-law of Booker T. Washington and a graduate of Tuskegee Institute and Drexell University, went on to practice in Washington D.C. where he received a number of commissions, including the first commission by a Black architect to build the Negro Building at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition in Virginia in 1907
Who opened the nation's first Black-owned architecture firm?
1. Chudi K. Abajuc
2. Charles P. Adams III
3. Moses Mckissack III
4. James L Baker
Moses Mckissack III
In 1905, Moses McKissack III joined his brother Calvin to form the first Black-owned architectural firm in the United States: McKissack & McKissack in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm is still active and has worked on thousands of facilities, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the M.L.K. Jr. Memorial, both in Washington, D.C.
What famous architect was a member of “The Seven Jewels”, the seven founding members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity?
1. James Sullivan
2. Vertner Woodson Tandy
3. George D. Hall
4. Wilbert D. Cook Jr
Vertner Woodson Tandy
Vertner Woodson Tandy was the first black architect registered in the state of New York and a founding member of Alpha Phi Alpha at Columbia University. He served as the first treasure of the fraternity and designed the fraternity’s pin.
In 2013, approximately how many Black women were architects in America?
1. 300
2. 100
3. 500
4. 50
300
In 2013 only 343 Black in the United States women were architects.
Who was the first black municipal architect in the United States?
1. Clarence W. Wigington
2. William Sidney Pittman
3. George Washington Foster
4. Robert P. Madison
Clarence W. Wigington
Clarence W. Wigington was America's first Black municipal architect, serving as senior designer for the city of St. Paul, Minnesota's architectural office. Many of his buildings, including schools, fire stations, park structures, the downtown St. Paul Police Station and the Highland Park Golf Clubhouse, many of which still stand.
What two sisters were the first African American women to graduate from a prestigious architectural program?
1. Eugenia Banks Hawthorne and Marcia Banks
2. Effiginia Worthy and Sheila Worthy
3. Mary Streeter and Maude Streeter Wingfield
4. Alberta Cassell and Martha Cassell Thompson
Albert Cassell was a noted architect in Washington D.C. who wanted all of his children to follow in his footsteps. His daughters, Alberta Cassell and Martha Cassell Thompson did so and, in 1948, became the first two women to graduate from the Cornell University School of Architecture.
Who was the first African American woman architect to work for the U.S. military?
1. Alberta Cassell
2. Danita M. Brown
3. Danielle Brown
4. Georgia Louise Brown
Alberta Cassell
Alberta Cassell worked as an architectural engineer for the Naval Research Laboratory from 1951-1961, after which she worked as an engineering draftswoman with the Military Sea Life Command. From 1971-1982, she served as an architect with the United States Naval Sea Systems Command.
In the early 1920s what architect, designer, and builder, was restrained from practicing her calling as an architect because of her race and gender and as a result, subsequently founded an art department?
1. Amaza L. Meredith.
2. Corilina T. Reddick
3. Lesley A. Roth
4. Morgan F. Dickerson
Amaza L. Meredith.
Amaza Lee Meredith, an architect, educator and artist, was unable to enter the profession as an architect, but founded the art department at Virginia State University and went on to design and develop many homes for family and friends, including, in 1947, a 120 lot subdivision in Sag Harbor, NY
In 2013, the last time figures were calculated, there were 105,847 licensed architects in the United States. How many of these were self identified as African Americans?
1. 10,000
2. 5,000
3. 2,000
4. 7,000
2,000
As of 2013, about 2% of the total number of licensed architects or 2,006 individuals were self-identified as African Americans.
What African American architect was also a governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands?
1. Archie Alexander
2. Curtis Moody
3. Donna Criner
4. Alberta Jeannette Cassell
Archie Alexander
Archie Alexander was an early African-American graduate of the University of Iowa and, in 1912, the first to graduate from the University of Iowa's College of Engineering. In 1954, he was appointed Governor of the United States Virgin Islands by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
What architect developed the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, a cultural center in Pittsburgh PA that honors the celebrated playwright?
1. William Stanley III
2. Allison Williams
3. Danita M. Brown
4. Brian Henley
Allison Williams
Allison Williams, serves as a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Visiting Committee, the Harvard Design Magazine Practitioners Advisory Board, and member of the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association and she has designed a number of buildings including the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
Who was the architect who designed a number of buildings in Birmingham, including the 16th Street Baptist Church, site of the Birmingham church bombing that killed four Black girls?
1. Wallace Augustus Rayfield
2. Christopher Allen Nelson
3. Brian Henley
4. Charles Adams
Wallace Augustus Rayfield
Wallace Augustus Rayfield was born in Macon Georgia and became the second trained and practicing Black architect in the U.S. After graduating from Columbia University in 1899, he was recruited by Booker T. Washington where he taught and opened his own practice, selling mail-order plans throughout the country. He moved to Birmingham in 1908 where he designed and built the 16th St. Baptist Church
Who was the first accredited Black architect in the U.S.?
1. Ricardo Hill
2. Robert R. Taylor.
3. Ronald R. Green
4. Charles E. Kellum
Robert R. Taylor
Robert R. Taylor was the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and became the first accredited African-American architect when he graduated in 1892
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