199:, Tennessee. Followed by a move to Nashville in 1905, in order to open his own architecture firm McKissack Company, initially located in the Napier Court Building. His first document client was Granberry Jackson Sr., the Dean of architecture and engineering at Vanderbilt University. After in which he designed many other residences for faculty at Vanderbilt University. The firm's first major project was design of the
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125:(1879â1952), was an American architect. He had his own architecture firm McKissack Company from 1905 until 1922, and was active in Tennessee and Alabama. In a partnership with his brother
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Conference on Housing Problems. In 1942, McKissack & McKissack received a large U.S. federal government contract to build and design the
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225:Turner Normal and Industrial School for Negroes
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