William Alfred Freret

William Alfred Freret Jr. (b. in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 19, 1833; d. 1911) was an American architect.

[1] He served from 1887 to 1888 as head of the Office of the Supervising Architect, which oversaw construction of Federal buildings.

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he entered the Confederate Army as a private in the Washington Artillery from New Orleans.

From 1866 to 1868, Freret was a state engineer for Louisiana, and for several years after that he had charge of the construction of the public schools of the McDonogh fund, some sixteen in number.

W. A. Freret designed the reconstructed statehouse at Baton Rouge after the Civil War.