William Sidney Pittman was the African-American Architect. He was born in 1876 and died in 1958. William Pittman received his education from Tuskegee Institute and Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. He designed a number of buildings for the Tuskegee Institute and developed the Fairmont Heights housing development for blacks in the suburbs of Maryland. He went on to become the first African American to win a federal commission for the Negro building at the national Tercentennial Exposition at Jamestown, Virginia. After establishing a name for himself Pittman made his way to Texas in order to escape the influence of his famous father-in-law Booker T. Washington. Once in Texas Pittman built the Pythian Temple(1915-16), the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church (1920), the Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in Fort Worth; and the Joshua Chapel A.M.E. church Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building, Tuskegee, Alabama (1900-1905)in Waxahachie.
A Listing of William Sidney Pittman's Buildings

Douglas Hall, Tuskegee, Alabama (1900-1905)

Rockefeller Hall, Tuskegee, Alabama (1900-1905)

Carnegie Library, Tuskegee, Alabama (1900-1
R. F. Turner Apartments, New York City, New York (1906)

Voorhees Industrial School, Denmark, South Carolina (n.d.)

Pittman House, Fairmount Heights, Maryland

Fairmount Heights Housing Development (1907-1911?)

Negro Building, National Tercentennial Exposition, Jamestown, Virginia (1907)

Young Men's Christian Association (Y. M. C. A.), Washington, D.C. (1907)

Agricultural Building Tuskegee Alabama (1908)

Garfield Public High School, Washington, D.C. (1908)

Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute (1908)

Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church, Fort Worth, Texas (1912-1914)

Knights of Pythias Temple, Dallas, Texas (1915-1916)

St. James A. M. E. Temple, Dallas, Texas (1919-1921)

Joshua Chapel A. M. E. Church, Waxahachie, Texas (1919)

Colored Carnegie Library, Houston, Texas (n.d.)

Wesley Chapel A. M. E. Church, Houston, Texas (n.d.)

United Brothers of Friendship Hall, San Antonio, Texas (n.d.)

Grand United Order of Oddfellows (Negro) Lodge Building, San Antonio, Texas (1924)

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