Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone

by David Vassar Taylor, Paul Clifford Larson

"Clarence W. ("Cap") Wigington was a man of firsts - the first registered African American architect in Minnesota and the first African American municipal architect in the nation. The public buildings and ice palaces that he designed for the city of St. Paul are a continuing legacy, helping to define the city's character. And his achievements, both as an architect and as a leader in the city's black community, are all the more significant given the limitations of the times in which he lived." Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone provides a picture of a man, his buildings, and his times.

150 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2002

About the author

David Vassar Taylor, was the dean of the General College at the University of Minnesota, and a scholar of the African diaspora. He wrote and lectured on the history of African Americans in Minnesota, and worked in the project "Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community."