Francis E. Griffin

Francis Eugene Griffin (1910–1973) was an American architect. He was a pioneering Black architect in Detroit and helped influence many other early career Black architects in the city. He was part of the architectural firms White & Griffin, and later Ward, Griffin, & Agee, and Francis E. Griffin Associates, Architects, & Planners. Griffin also worked in the 1950s for the United States government in designing structures in Liberia. His name is also spelled Frances E. Griffin.

Early life and education Francis Eugene Griffin was born September 10, 1910, in Battle Creek, Michigan, to African American parents Genevieve Tucker Griffin and William Edward Dunston Griffin. The family was part of the Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church in Battle Creek.

From 1928 until 1931, Griffin attended the University of Michigan (UMich); followed by a second period of study from 1933 to 1935. Griffin is profiled in the biographical dictionary African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945 (2004).

List of works Aijalon Baptist Church (1950), 6419 Beechwood Street, Detroit, Michigan Considine Auditorium and Sculpture Court (1973), 8904 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan