Douglas Ellington

Douglas Dobell Ellington (26 June 1886 – 27 August 1960) was an American architect who is noted for his work in the Art Deco style.

Biography Ellington studied architecture at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Ellington was the first American to win the Rougevin prize.

He was also the architect for the North Charleston Methodist Church in North Charleston, South Carolina in 1954 and Holmes Avenue Baptist Church in 1958. In 1927, Ellington designed the Sylvan Theatre, now part of the Downtown Sylva Historic District in Sylva, North Carolina.

Ellington died on August 27, 1960, at his self-designed and built summer home, known as the Douglas Ellington House, in Asheville, North Carolina.

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