Did you know that two churches in Cincinnati, Ohio were designed by an African American Architect?
Mr. William L. Manggrum Jr. is a pioneer in architecture.
Mr. Manggrum grew up in Walnut Hills. He attended Withrow High School and Howard University's School Of Engineering & Architecture.
He is hailed as the first African American architect from Cincinnati and the second from Ohio to become a registered architect.
He designed buildings in the Walnut Hills, Avondale (First New Shiloh Baptist), Lockland and Evanston (The Fifth Christian Church - Disciples of Christ) areas.
Mr. Manggrum comes from a family of 1st.
Mr. William Langston Manggrum Sr., a 1921 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, opened Manggrum Drug Store in the late 1920s, the first black-owned drugstore to be opened in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Source - (ABHPharm)
Mrs. Loretta C. Manggrum - In 1953 Mrs Manggrum became the first African American to earn a degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. - Source (The Voice of Black Cincinnati)
