William Strudwick Arrasmith

William Strudwick Arrasmith (July 15, 1898 – November 30, 1965) was an American architect known for his designs for Greyhound bus stations in the Streamline Moderne style popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Among the over 60 stations he designed are the Cleveland Greyhound Bus Station, the Montgomery, Alabama, Greyhound Bus Station (1951), and the Evansville, Indiana, Greyhound Bus Terminal (1938) which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Early life and family William Arrasmith was born on July 15, 1898, to Thomas and Mary Strudwick at Hillsboro, North Carolina, in the United States. He studied at the University of North Carolina and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a bachelor of science degree in architecture in 1921.

He met his future wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Beam, at Illinois. They had a daughter, Anne. He was later in partnership with Bill Tyler as Arrasmith & Tyler which later became Arrasmith & Judd and then Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp & Associates. As of 2015 the firm was trading as Arrasmith, Judd, Rapp, Chovan, Inc. He also designed stations for the company in Columbus, Dayton, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. which is on the National Register of Historic Places along with eight of his other station designs. In total he designed over 60 stations for the company. and buildings for Western Kentucky University. (additional stations in Akron and Dayton) IMage:Kentucky Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky Postcard c. 1940.png|Postcard view of the Kentucky Hotel in Louisville Kentucky, circa 1940

Military service Arrasmith was in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps while at Illinois and was in command of a veteran company in 1933. Following the Ohio River flood of 1937 he led efforts to build a pontoon bridge to link Louisville's downtown to the East End. During the Second World War he served with the United States Army 6th Corps Engineers in Europe and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army reserves. A collection of his papers is held by The Filson Historical Society. The Filson also holds a collection of architectural drawings from his firm. A book by Frank E. Wrenick devoted to Arrasmith's Greyhound designs was published by McFarland in 2006.