Robert Lee Hall (July 19, 1922 – January 24, 1990) was an architect based in Memphis,

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who established the firm of Robert Lee Hall and Associates. He designed

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in East Memphis,

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in downtown Memphis, and Patterson Hall at the

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Hall was born in

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. He worked at

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aircraft plant in Memphis where he met Annie Laurie McGee, a Memphis socialite,National Register of Historic Places
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during World War II. His firm eventually became a partnership with his former associate Ben Waller as Hall & Waller Architects. Hall was an

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in Germantown, Tennessee and served on the city planning board. He was also a

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and belonged to the

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. He had four children. He was also a boyscout leader. He was president of the

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Memphis branch in 1972. He is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis. Hall graduated from the Memphis Academy of Arts ( Memphis College of Art). He was given an honorary architecture degree from the

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. He was a trustee at the Germantown United Methodist Church.

Work

(1970 - 1971) in East Memphis. Renovated in 2004. *Patterson Hall at the University of Memphis * Clark Oil building on 6th Street in Milwaukee *Old Holiday Inn in Rivermont *Building similar to 100 North Main, but without the revolving restaurant, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin *

(1965) in downtown Memphis, the city's tallest building. * Parkway Towers (1968) in Nashville, Tennessee *International Trade Mart (

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) building (now the

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) (1967) in New Orleans, Louisiana, associate architect with

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NRHP listed *The Troubadour (1967) in New Orleans, Louisiana * iBank Tower, also known as White Station Tower, (1965) at 5050 Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee * 136 East South Temple (1965) in Salt Lake City, Utah *University Club Building in Salt Lake City with ashley Carpenter *Anthony Wayne Bank Building (1964) in Fort Wayne, Indiana Converted into the Anthony Wayne Building, a condo tower, in 2011. *River Tower at South Bluffs (1964) in Memphis, Tennessee *633 Building (1962) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin *

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with Furbringer and Merrill G. Ehrman

References

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