E. William Martin

E. William Martin FAIA (November 2, 1891 – December 10, 1977) was a Scottish-born American architect in practice in Wilmington, Delaware from 1926 to 1965.

As a child his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Wilmington, where he was educated in the public schools.

There he worked for architect Percy Worthington in Manchester and attended the University of Liverpool, from which he earned a BArch in 1922.

Martin developed a specialty for school buildings designed in traditional revival styles, though his work transitioned towards modernism after World War II.

[4] This accelerated after he was joined in 1952 by Donald S. Wason, a former employee of Holabird & Root and a recent graduate of the architecture school of the Illinois Institute of Technology, then under the leadership of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

[1] Circa 1947 the family moved into a house on Orchard Road in Newark of Martin's own design, where he lived for the rest of his life.

[10] In 1931 he was chosen as primary architect for the Delaware Legislative Hall (1933) after the initial appointment of outsider Norman M. Isham was protested by Alfred I. du Pont, Pierre's brother, and others.