Robert Robinson Taylor (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Robinson Taylor (June 8, 1868 - 1942) was an American architect; by some accounts the first accredited African American Architect in the United States. Taylor enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1888, the first African American student at MIT, and was associated with Tuskegee University once called Tuskegee Institute, designing most of the buildings on campus completed prior to 1932, and even serving as second-in-command to Tuskegee's founder and first President, Dr. Booker T. Washington. He died while attending services at the Tuskegee Chapel, a building he considered his finest achievement. The Robert Taylor Homes were named for him.