William Augustus Edwards

In 1930 William A. Edwards and firm designed the educational classroom and administrative building for The Southern Industrial Institute, now known as Lyman Ward Military Academy, in Camp Hill, AL. The structure known as Tallapoosa Hall was designed at the request of well known educator Dr. Lyman Ward who like Edwards was also a Unitarian. Dr. Ward had transplanted to Alabama in 1898 to establish a school for impoverished boys and girls. Completed in 1933, Tallapoosa Hall is also a Gothic Revival design and the building was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 2008.

From 1905-1925, William A. Edwards was architect for the Florida Board of Control and designed many buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style for the three existing state institutions of higher learning as well as other public schools.

As the main architect for Florida's newly reorganized system of higher education, Edwards designed numerous buildings for the University of Florida's new Gainesville campus, which first welcomed students in 1906. Most of his surviving works at the school had already been individually recognized by the National Register of Historic Places when the University of Florida Campus Historic District was established in the heart of the original campus in 1989.[2]

Works by Edwards at the University of Florida:

• Florida School for the Deaf and Blind

Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. Buildings designed by William Augustus Edwards include:[4]

The Carnegie Library and perhaps other buildings designed by Edwards are among 14 contributing buildings in Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College Historic District, NRHP-listed[2]

Florida State College for Women (Florida State University). Buildings designed by William Augustus Edwards include:[4]

• Caroline Brevard Grammar School, 727 S. Calhoun St., Tallahassee, Florida (Edwards, William A.), NRHP-listed[2]
• Lincoln High School, 438 W Brevard St, Tallahassee, Florida (Edwards, William A. and Sayward, William)[5]
• Sealey Memorial Elementary School (demolished), 7th Avenue near Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida (Edwards, William A. and Sayward, William)[5]
• W. H. Covington Residence, 328 Cortez Street, Tallahassee, Florida (Edwards, William A. and Sayward, William)[6]
• Exchange Bank, Southeast corner of Monroe Street and College Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida (Edwards, William A. and Sayward, William)[7]

• Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia: Buttrick Hall, 1930; McCain Library, 1936[8]
• Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia
• Georgia State Teachers College
• Georgia State Women's College (Valdosta State University)

• Clemson College (Clemson University)
• Furman University, Greenville: Judson Alumni Hall, 1900–1961.[9]
• Limestone College, Gaffney: Winnie Davis Hall, 1904,
• McMaster School, now USC's McMaster College, Columbia
• South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, Spartanburg
• University of South Carolina, Columbia: Currell College (originally the law school named Petigru College, but changed in 1950 to Currell when a new Petigru was built for the law school) 1919,.
• Walhalla Graded School, Walhalla, 1901
• Winthrop College, Winthrop University, Rock Hill: Withers Building, Main Classroom - Office Building, 1912–1913.

• Hernando County Courthouse, 1913.[10]
• Sumter County Courthouse (Florida), 1914[11]

Tift County Courthouse

• Fannin County Courthouse, Georgia, 1937, replaced 2004 by new courthouse next door. Old one is leased as Georgia Mountain Center for the Arts.[12][13]
• Tift County Courthouse (1912), Courthouse Sq., Tifton, Georgia, 1912–13, NRHP-listed[2][14] Beaux Arts in style, listed on the National Register of Historic Places individually and as part of Tifton Commercial Historic District[15]

Between 1908 and 1915 Edwards designed nine county courthouses for the state of South Carolina, all of which are still standing except the ones in Kershaw and Darlingon which were destroyed. The courthouses are as follows:

• Abbeville County Courthouse, Court Sq. Abbeville, South Carolina, NRHP-listed[2]
• Calhoun County Courthouse, S. Railroad Ave., St. Matthews, South Carolina, NRHP-listed[2]
• Darlington County Courthouse, 1904–1964, replaced by highrise courthouse on same site[16]
• Dillon County Courthouse, 1303 W. Main St., Dillon, South Carolina. (Edwards, William Augustus), NRHP-listed[2]
• Kershaw County Courthouse, destroyed
• Jasper County Courthouse, Russell St., Ridgeland, South Carolina, NRHP-listed[2]
• Lee County Courthouse, 123 Main St., Bishopville, South Carolina, NRHP-listed[2]
• Sumter County Courthouse, 141 N. Main St., Sumter, South Carolina, NRHP-listed[2]
• York County Courthouse, corner of W. Liberty and S. Congress Sts., York, South Carolina, NRHP-listed[2]

• Covington House, 328 Cortez St., Tallahassee, Florida, 1926, NRHP-listed[2]
• Exchange Bank Building, Tallahassee, Florida
• Hotel Thomas, 1919, bounded by N.E. 2nd and 5th Sts. and N.E. 6th and 7th Aves., Gainesville, Florida, NRHP-listed[2]

• City Hall and Firehouse, Bainbridge, Georgia
• Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium, 1912–1913, 228-250 Auburn Ave., NE, Atlanta, Georgia (Edwards, William A.), NRHP-listed[2]
• University Homes in the Atlanta University Center area
• Unitarian Church of Atlanta, 669 West Peachtree Street, 1915[17]
• United States Post Office and Courthouse (Columbus, Georgia), 1933
• former Bank of Tifton (1917), Tifton, Georgia, a C&S Bank in 1985, "a fine example of the Neoclassical style", a contributing building in NRHP-listed Tifton Commercial Historic District[15]
• One or more works in Lakewood Heights Historic District, jct. of Jonesboro Rd. and Lakewood Ave., Atlanta, Georgia (Edwards, William), NRHP-listed[2]
• One or more works in Southern Railway North Avenue Yards Historic District, 539 John St. NW, Atlanta, Georgia (Edwards, William), NRHP-listed[2]

• Abbeville Opera House, Abbeville, South Carolina
• Cain House at 1619 Pendleton Street, Columbia, South Carolina. 1912. now The Inn at USC'.
• South Carolina State Armory, 1219 Assembly Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 1905, NRHP-listed[2]