William Lenox
(Bill) Laslett

(1937–2018)

Laslett was born in Albany NY but the family moved to Fayetteville NC. He graduated high school from Woodbury Forest School in Virginia and from college at Colgate University with an 1959 BA in Fine Arts. At Yale, he graduated in 1963 with a BA in Architecture. He later attended the UNC School of Public Health. Virginia University of Lynchburg gave him an honorary PhD.

Laslett went into practice with his father, Basil G. F. Laslett, for the next 20 years, doing primarily institutional work. Basil Laslett designed his own house, the Huffines House, and the H. C. Blackwell House in Fayetteville NC. Featured in Carolina Architecture 1942.

The firm became Laslett and Laslett and then LSV Partnership in 1984. The elder Laslett died in 1978. Bill Laslett left the firm and moved to Richmond VA around 1987 to work for Odell Associates specializing in medical facilities. He left in 1993 to restart his own firm in Richmond VA, WLL Architects, where he did architecture and was also an expert witness. His funeral was at the Jernigan Warren Funeral Home, designed by Laslett & Laslett in Fayetteville NC.