architecture (1929); and later returned to classes at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where he received a M.Arch.
[5] He designed a Prairie View State College new campus dormitory for women called Evans Hall (1927), and a fifty bed hospital (1929, demolished in 1980).
[5] After completing his master's at Kansas State University, Fry was hired as a senior designer by architect Albert Irvin Cassell, replacing Hilyard Robert Robinson on Howard University projects.
[5] Architecture was not a new field to the school, it had been taught since 1893, but Tuskegee Institute had reorganized the department structure.
[5][8] Fry left Tuskegee after receiving an offer in 1940 as campus architect from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.
[9][10] Fry finished designing the campus master plan working alongside Charles Edgar Dickinson.
[5] He took a sabbatical and enrolled in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 1944, working under Walter Gropius.
[5] From 1947 until 1972, Fry worked as faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C., while maintaining his private architectural practice (which included designing for other school campuses).
[5] In 1960, his son Louis Jr. joined his firm and helped him design in Washington, D.C.[5] Throughout his career he maintained teaching at the college level.
The Kansas State University, Morse Department of Special Collections contains an archive named Louis Fry (folder 21).