Albert Grant Brown (1881–1924) was an American architect and professor.
He was an early African American architect and taught architecture at
West Virginia Colored Institute (now West Virginia State University).
Biography
Albert Grant Brown was born in 1881 in
Campbells Creek, West Virginia.
Brown attended Black Hawk Hollow Negro School for primary school.
He continued his studies at
West Virginia Colored Institute (now known as West Virginia State University) in
Farm, West Virginia (now known as Institute, West Virginia);
and
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU; formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute) is a Private university, private, Historically black colleges and universities, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. It was f ...
(now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Alabama on a scholarship.
After graduation, Brown taught architecture classes at
West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State University), his alma mater.
He also served as the athletic director for many years.
After suffering from a hernia and checking into a hospital, he died on August 28, 1924, of pneumonia.
Rev.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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preceded over his funeral service which was held at the First Baptist Church in Charleston, West Virginia.
He was buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Charleston, West Virginia.
Work
* The
Knights of Pythias
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Hall (1905), Washington and Dickinson Streets, Charleston, West Virginia; now demolished
* St. Paul Baptist Church (1920), 821 B Street,
St. Albans
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, West Virginia
See also
*
African-American architects
African-American architects are those in the architectural profession who are African American in the United States. Their work in the more distant past was often overlooked or outright erased from the historical records due to the racist social ...
References
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1881 births
1924 deaths
People from Kanawha County, West Virginia
West Virginia State University alumni
Tuskegee Institute alumni
African-American architects
West Virginia State University faculty
Burials at Spring Hill Cemetery (Charleston, West Virginia)