William Augustus Edwards

[1] He and another Darlington County native, Charles C. Wilson, set up an office together in Columbia, having previously worked in Roanoke, Virginia.

Among the academic institutions for which Edwards designed buildings were: In 1930, William A. Edwards and firm designed the educational classroom and administrative building for The Southern Industrial Institute, now known as Lyman Ward Military Academy, in Camp Hill, AL.

The structure known as Tallapoosa Hall was designed at the request of well known educator Lyman Ward who like Edwards was also a Unitarian.

Completed in 1933, Tallapoosa Hall is also a Gothic Revival design and the building was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 2008.

From 1905 to 1925, William A. Edwards was architect for the Florida Board of Control and designed many buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style for the three existing state institutions of higher learning as well as other public schools.