Campus Architect

Robert R. Taylor, Tuskegee's original architect, shaped much of the campus around the main quadrangle and also designed many buildings in other parts of the school. He taught architecture and supervised students as they built dormitories, classroom buildings, administrative offices, the Washington family home, and the chapel, which he considered his masterpiece. The first African American graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Taylor spent all but three years of his architectural career at Tuskegee. Students constructed the Old Administration Building in 1902 using bricks made on the campus.

Tuskegee, Alabama · United States