Howard Hamilton Mackey
American architect, academic administrator, painter, educator (1901–1987)
Howard Hamilton Mackey Sr., (1901–1987), was an American architect, painter, educator, and academic administrator. For 50 years he worked at Howard University, from 1924 until 1973; including serving as the department head, and associate dean.
Early life and education
Howard Hamilton Mackey was born on November 25, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Black parents Anna Willis and Henry Bardon Mackey. His father was a butler for a White family and his mother was a domestic worker. From 1916 to 1920, Mackey attended South Philadelphia High School. The summer after high school graduation, he worked as a junior draftsman for architect William Augustus Hazel.
Mackey received a bachelor of architecture in 1924 from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Architecture. In 1936, he took a teaching sabbatical to work on a master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
He worked at Howard University for 50 years, from 1924 until 1973; as a faculty member (1924–); department head (1929–); and later an associate dean of the School of Architecture and Engineering (1937–). When Mackey joined Howard University in 1924, there were only two other full time instructors in the architecture department at the time, Hilyard Robert Robinson and Albert Irvin Cassell.
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