He was a consulting architect for the Dallas Independent School District from 1945 to 1968.[1] Moreover, from 1948 to 1959, he also designed eighteen Georgian-style buildings on the campus of Southern Methodist University, including the Fondren Science Building and the Perkins Chapel.[1] He also designed buildings for the University of Texas at Austin, Galveston and Dallas.[1] He designed the now demolished original building of Hyer Elementary School for Highland Park Independent School District. Lemmon also designed the campus and the many additions of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, TX. The building is wonderfully preserved and is a prime example of Lemmon’s Georgian style buildings.[5]
He married Maybelle Reynolds on November 14, 1922.[1] They had two sons.[1] He died on December 22, 1975, in Dallas, Texas, where he was buried in the Hillcrest Mausoleum.[1]
Bibliography
Secondary sources
Richard R. Brettell, Willis Winters, Crafting Traditions: The Architecture of Mark Lemmon, Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005.