Luther Snow Lashmit was born in Winston-Salem in 1899 to James Luther and Mary Snow Lashmit.
He graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and Fontainebleau Ecole des Beaux in Paris.
Luther Lashmit was an architect, and the list of building and homes that he designed is large and varied. He was 29 years old when Mrs. Bowman Gray commissioned him to build Graylyn, in the French Provincial style that she had seen in Europe. Another house that he designed was Merry Acres, a contemporary-styled house for Dick and Blitz Reynolds.
Some of the buildings that he designed are: Forsyth Memorial Hospital, Medical Park Hospital, parts of Bowman Gray School of Medicine, the Fine Arts Center and Science Building at Salem College, buildings at Winston-Salem State University, and the Main Public Library.
He also designed high schools, such as North Forsyth, Parkland, and Mount Tabor. He designed churches, such as First Christian and Knollwood Baptist.
Lashmit was recognized in 1976 by the North Carolina Institute of Architects for his outstanding contributions to architecture in North Carolina. He retired in 1978, and moved to Southern Pines, where he passed away in 1989.
Photo courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.
