Byron Woodward
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(1921–2012)

Byron Franklin was born in San Antonio TX. He earned a degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1941. He served during World War II as a fighter pilot in the United States Marines 1942-1946. Franklin received a Bachelors in Architecture from MIT in 1949. His early work experience came from three Cambridge MA firms: W. A. Bogner, Carl Koch, and R. W. Kennedy. After active duty, he continued service as a fighter pilot trainer in Kinston in 1952.

In 1953, he started his own firm and designed many projects, including the Clinton Chapel AME Zion Church in New Bern NC, St. Andrews Methodist Church in Raleigh, and Christus Victor Lutheran Church in Research Triangle Park. By 1970, he had an office in North Hills Mall in Raleigh. At some point he moved to Washington NC and spent his last years in a retirement home in Bath NC.

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