Louis H. Persley

[1][3] He was part of what was possibly the nation’s first black architecture firm, Taylor and Persley, a partnership founded in July 1920 with Robert Robinson Taylor.

[7] Louis Persley was born and raised in Macon, Georgia, to Black parents Maxine and Thomas K.

[4][8] This was possibly the first black architecture firm in the United States.

He died on July 13, 1932, at the age of 42, of kidney failure,[4][7] and he is buried at Linwood Cemetery in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood of Macon, Georgia.

A historical marker commemorates him in front of the First AME Church in Athens, Georgia.