The two brothers both attended Arsenal Technical High School where Leslie learned to draw and developed a passion for architecture.
[3] Upon his return to Indianapolis, Leslie Ayres began working as an architect and renderer in the area.
He received work from his former employers, Pierre & Wright, as well as other prominent Indianapolis architectural firms such as Rubush & Hunter, A. M. Strauss, and Robert Frost Daggett.
His early drawings depict a wide variety of subjects including: power plants, high schools, monuments, clubs, civic structures, and religious buildings.
In 1948, National Architect magazine described him as “just about the only professional renderer in Indiana.”[1] His most celebrated work was the design for the Wilkinson House in Muncie, Indiana, which he did in the early 1930s.
An Art Moderne masterpiece, the house was, and still is, celebrated as one of the best examples of this style of residential architecture in Indiana.