William Henry Lord - Biography

 

 Born 1866
Died 1933
 
 
 
"William Henry Lord moved to Asheville from upstate New York in the late 1890's, and lived in a a house at the corner of Flint and West Chestnut Streets until the house he designed and built at 267 Flint Street was completed in 1900. He could trace his family's ancestry to the Isle of Man. He was married to Helen Anthony Lord and they had one son, Anthony (1900-1993), who also became a prominent architect in Western North Carolina.

His architectural offices were located at 17 1/2 Church Street, on the top floor (this was later the first office space for Six Associates, of which Anthony Lord was a principal.) During the Depression, when there were few architectural contracts to be had, W.H. And Anthony produced ornamental ironwork at a forge they built at 267 Flint Street, and supplied hardware to many clients in the northeast, including Yale University.

W.H. Lord designed many schools, private residences and other buildings in Western North Carolina, including:

  • Biltmore High School
  • David Millard School (originally called Asheville High School)
  • Mission Hospital Buildings (original hospital)
  • Margo Terrace
  • Gynmasium at Farm School (Warren Wilson College)
  • Trinity Episcopal Church (Lord was the local supervising architect for the rebuilding of the church in 1913, working with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, a famous architect with the New York And Boston-based firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson.