William Roy Wallace
American architect
William Roy Wallace (June 19, 1889 – February 10, 1983) was an American architect, prominent in the 20th century.
Early life
Wallace was born in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, in 1889. He was the third child of Harry Eugene Wallace and Mary Brubaker.
He graduated high school in 1909 and began a one-year scholarship to Swarthmore College. His parents' limited funds meant he had to withdraw at the end of the scholarship.
Career
Wallace began his career as a protégé of Charles Barton Keen, who designed country houses for the elite of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He began as an office boy, then became a draftsman and finally partner.
He and Keen moved to Winston-Salem in 1923 to work on the construction of the R. J. Reynolds High School, and Wallace remained in the city to oversee their Winston-Salem office, housed in the Wachovia Building. During the remainder of the 1920s, the duo worked on several homes in Reynolda Park and Stratford Road, before returning to Philadelphia for five years.
In 1928, Keen made the move to Winston-Salem permanent, establishing an architectural practice with Harold Macklin and James M. Conrad in the city's Reynolds Building.
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