Wallace A. Rayfield

Reading through one of my journals (Preservation) I stumbled upon an interesting article on Wallace A. Rayfield, the second african american architect in America, whose plans, drawings, elevations etc were discovered in the basement of a Southern Baptist Minister when he was cleaning out his home

Here's a helpful link:
http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Architectural-Legacy-of-Wallace-A-Rayfield,4922.aspx

Something about this story seems quite enticing. My idea is to mainly incorporate this specific article into my SecondLife project, by exploring Romanesque and Byzantine styles that were dominant in the design of Rayfield's buildings, as well as literally incorporating aspects of this story, such as the hidden box discovered by Allen Durough and possibly a memorial to the four girls who died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, one of Rayfield's most famous buildings.




16th Street Baptist Church, the site of the bombings.