Philip Thornton Marye (9/4/1872-12/1/1935) Atlanta, Georgia (A.I.A.)

Formerly associated in partnership with Richard W. Alger and his brother Barrett (Marye, Alger & Alger), later senior partner and majority owner of the successive firms of Marye, Alger & Vinour and Marye, Vinour & Armistead. Born at Alexandria, Virginia, educated in private schools and at the University of Virginia (1889-1890), he began practice at Newport News, Virginia in 1892 under his own name, and carried on work there until 1904. Moving to Atlanta in that yer, he continued active until his death, head of a large architectural organization which planned and executed numerous projects in the southern states. Among the outstanding works of the firm were buildings for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company in cities of North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky, of which the two at Atlanta and Louisville were the largest and the latest. Mr. Marye and his associates also planned many public and commercial structures, important examples of which were the State Penitentiary at Richmond, Virginia; Wake County Court House, City Auditorium and several Bank buildings at Raleigh, North Carolina; Greenville County Court House at Greenville, South Carolina; Railroad Terminal, the Shrine Temple, St. Luke's Church, and the Walton Building at Atlanta, Georgia; the Rail Road Terminal at Birmingham, and another at Mobile Alabama; Florida Supreme Court House at Tallahassee; First National Bank Building at Jackson, Mississippi; and the Civil Court Building at New Orleans, Louisiana. He became a member of the Georgia Chapter A.I.A. in 1916.