Mississippi Architects: C.H. Lindsley

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About Mississippi Architects: C.H. Lindsley

Claude H. Lindsley (1894-1969) was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Lindsley began his architectural career employed with X.A. Kramer in Jackson in 1914 and apparently did not attend college or have any academic training. He became a partner with Kramer as KRAMER & LINDSLEY but established his own practice in 1923. Lindsley's practice took off in the 1920s, with major designs such as the Threefoot Building in Meridian and the Tower Building in Jackson, but he was hit hard by the Depression. He moved out of Mississippi and eventually moved to Houston, TX, in 1937 and lived there until 1946, associated with Wyatt C. Hedrick in the firm HEDRICK & LINDSLEY. He returned to his own independent practice in 1947, continuing in Houston, but he maintained connections on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, with several projects through the 1950s. By 1958, he was listed in the Ocean Springs City Directory with a Houston address (Holcombe Blvd.), but apparently he built a house in Gulf Hills and semi-retired there soon thereafter. He died in Ocean Springs (Gulf Hills) in 1969, but is buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Jackson.

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