Rayfield, Wallace A.
1873-1941 · Contribution: 1899-1930s
Architect
Designed over 400 buildings across 20 states, including offering mail-order architectural plans nationwide
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Quick facts
- Born
- 1873
- Active since
- 1899
- Category
- Architecture & Design
- Best known for
- Designed 16th Street Baptist Church400+ buildings, mail-order plansFirst Black practice in Alabama
Impact on the world
Rayfield brought professional architecture to Black communities across the South and, through mail-order plans, nationwide, including the church that would become sacred ground of the civil-rights era.
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