William A Manley

• American

William A Manley was an Anchorage resident and architect for more than thirty years. He was born in Washington in 1904, and moved to Juneau in 1913. He studied architecture at the University of Idaho at Moscow. In 1937, Manley moved to Anchorage and worked as an architect until his retirement in 1967. He was a member of the territorial Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners. In addition to the Loussac-Sogn Building, he designed a number of major buildings in Anchorage, among them Grant Hall at Alaska Pacific University, West High School, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor elementary schools, the Simpson and Commerce Building, and the YMCA. He also designed the facade and first addition to the Governor's Mansion in Juneau and the Shrine of St Therese near Juneau. - NRHP, 14 April 1988