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#Flowers 💐 | Black History Edition | Timeline 1908 | Vertner W. Tandy Sr. | #Architecture
It in 1908. Werner W. Tandy Senior, who lived from 1885 to 1949, was the first black american architect registered in New York state. He designed Villa Lorero on the Hudson river, the mansion of hair care magnate Madam C. J. Walker. Tandy is also known for founding Alpha Phi Alpha for fraternity at Cornell University. Sources who's who and Colored America, 1929, page 352. Garrett, famous first facts about Negroes, page 72. Thank you