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1907 he was e1t> ted bv unanimou' \'Ot of the commillee to
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prepare plan for and up rintentl the con truction of a
75,000 building for the colored branch of the Young Men's
hri ·tian A·. ociation. In 1908 h was awarded the contract,
by the munieipal gon'rnment of the Di trict of Columbia, for a
9.0,000 publie chool building, known as the Garficld choo\.
His work has not b en confined to Washino-ton, however, for
in ev ry section of the outh may be found buildinl1 ' constructed
in accordance with his planning. He recently completed plans
for a larcre trade s('hool building for th Voorhees Industrial
chool at Denmark. In Februar.v. ]909, he completed
plans and specifieations for the new'" illbank Agricultural
Building at Tush'gee, to cost $30.000. H is now constructing
two Kentucky state (YO\'ernment building at Frankfort for the
Kentucky Normal and Indu trial Institute, for colored people,
stone :trudures. to eost 30,000. One is a trades' building and
the othcr a large auditorium and administration building.
NEGRO BUILDING, JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
In addition to till.' •egro Building at thc Jamestown Exposition,
he planncd for the con ·truction of everal small ,. buildings,
in connection with the Ncc,ro departmcnt. and also for the remodeling
of a large hotel building at Torfolk, Va.
II'. Pillman organized and is pI' :idcnt of thc Fairmont
Height Improvelllent Company of W~ hington, an inve tment
company which has ju t eompleted a 3,000 public hall building
in the colored uburb onYashington known a. Fairmont Height.
He wa. el clcd president of the Height itizcn.'· ommittee at
its last lection.
He has bcen carnc -tho intere ted in the Ne!!ro Bu in Leal1ue • ~ t>
of the Di t,'jet of Columbia, which he orl1anized, and of which he
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has for two years been the president. This league has an enrollment
of more than one hundred active profe sional and busine
men and women. He is editor of the Negro Business
League Herald, a monthly magazine devoted to the commercial
and material advancement of the members of the ational and
Local Negro Business Leagues and of the race in general.
He was one of the organizers and is president of the Lincoln
Memorial Building Company, a corporation organized for the
purpose of constructing a memorial to Lincoln and to the
thrift and energy of the American egro. in the form of a large
theatcl' and office building in the heart of the business district of
Wa hington, to be exclusively owned and managed by Negroes.
The corporation is capitalized at $400,000.
Mr. Pillman is the son-in-law of Dr. Booker T. Washington
of Tuskegee Institute.
Frederick D. Patterson
Greenfield. Ohio
~IR. PATTERSON is a carriage builder, general manager of
the firm of C. R. Patter on & Sons. He was born in GreenficIci,
Ohio, in 1871. His father wa a man of usefulne sand
influence in the community, and, by reason of his mechanical
kill, enjoyed opportunities not usu-alI)'
accorded thirty years or more ago
to one of his race. He ,,,as a partner
with white men in a representative
bu iness firm for a number of years.
Frederick was given every possible
educational advantage, receiving instruction
in the public schools, and
finalIy in a course at the Ohio State
University, Columbus. At the end of
hi colIege course he became a teacher
in the Loui ville High School, re igning
in 1901 to engage with his father and
Frederick D. Patterson brother in carriage manufacturing in
Greenfield. The business has a sets
that wiIl aggregate $40,000; a trade employing 40 skiIled
mechanic ; an output of 500 new hil1h-oTade vehicle each t> I:>
year; an annual busine s of $75,000.
Mr. Patterson is a member of the Executive Committee of
the ational egro Bu ine s League.
