The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town

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A. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders, and homeowners to embrace the finest elements of Louisiana’s architectural past. Almost each and every home built in Louisiana all the way through the last twenty years is by some means inspired by Town’s work.
The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town honors his legacy as Louisiana’s premier residential architect. Color photographs of a lot of homes — including Town’s own — by Philip Gould combined with an illuminating text by Cyril E. Vetter produce a volume that captures the appeal and great thing about the state’s finest architectural tradition.
Born and raised in rural southwest Louisiana, Hays Town graduated from Tulane University with a degree in architecture in 1926 and worked for a firm in Jackson, Mississippi, for a few years. He established his own successful commercial practice in Baton Rouge in 1939, but in the 1960s, Town turned to his abiding passion — residential architecture. During this chapter of his career, he perfected his inimitable style and emerged as one of the vital prominent architects in the South.
Town’s residential designs are perceptibly influenced by the diverse culture of south Louisiana. His synthesis of the classic Acadian cottage, Spanish courtyards, and exterior French doors with Creole-influenced full-length shutters achieves an original confluence of seemingly disparate yet elegantly balanced themes and forms. Other Town trademarks include pigeonniers, tree alleys, thirteen-foot ceilings, heavy use of such woods as cypress and heart of pine, plantation-style separate structures, and brick floors with a special beeswax finish.
The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town illuminates the momentous effect Town has had on the look of Louisiana. Crafted from the perspective of two people, Vetter and Gould, who don’t seem to be architects but admirers of one man’s exceptional talent, this delightful book demonstrates that each and every Town house is a work of art that fits both person and terrain. At the door of each and every home, proud owners hang a bronze plaque that says it all: A. Hays Town, Architect.

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