Louis Edwin Fry Sr.

Louis Edwin Fry Sr., , (1903–2000) was an American architect and professor. He was a former chair of the department of architecture at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C.. Fry was a registered architect in Alabama, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. His parents were Pleasant Ann and Henry Bowers Fry, he had one older brother. and M.S. architecture; and later returned to classes at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where he received a M.Arch. degree (1945).

In 1927, Fry married Obelia E. Swearingen from Kansas City. Fry left Tuskegee after receiving an offer in 1940 as campus architect from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Fry finished designing the campus master plan working alongside Charles Edgar Dickinson.

Fry mentored hundreds of African American architecture students. Fry's profile was included in the biographical dictionary African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945 (2004). The Kansas State University, Morse Department of Special Collections contains an archive named Louis Fry (folder 21).

Awards 1966, Distinguished Service Award, Kansas State University 1995, Centennial Award, American Institute of Architects D.C. Chapter

Work

Campus-based design work