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Rayfield graduated from Pratt Institute , Columbia University in 1899 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. Upon graduation, he was recruited by Booker T. Washington to the Directorship of the Architectural and Mechanical Drawing Department at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama . In 1907, Rayfield opened a professional office in Tuskegee from which he sold mail-order plans nationwide. He also advertised "branch offices" in Birmingham , Montgomery , Mobile and Talladega, Alabama and Atlanta , Savannah , Macon and Augusta, Georgia . He left Tuskegee Institute and moved to Birmingham in 1908 to focus on his young practice. He was elected as Superintending Architect for the Freedmen’s Aid Society and Connectional Architect of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church . NOTABLE WORKS
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