Julian Bunn Davidson

Julian Bunn Davidson is a retired architect with Wittenberg, Delony, and Davidson. He is architect of the Robinson Auditorium, the Grady Manning Hotel, the First Commercial Bank tower, buildings at Tucker Prison, the chemistry building at the University of Arkansas, the Arkansas Union, Mullins Library, almost all of the older buildings on the campuses of the University of Central Arkansas and Hendrix College, the art deco Bale Chevrolet, Arkansas Power and Light at Ninth and Louisiana streets, the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building, Arkla Plaza, the First National Bank building, the Lanai Towers of Hot Springs' Majestic Hotel, and Osceola High School.

Davidson is a 1924 graduate of Little Rock High School and a 1928 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Remembered Davidson in 1989, "I started small. Mostly residential work. Then I did small commercial work. My first fairly large job was Osceola High School." During World War II he helped design a test laboratory at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Springs, Maryland.

Davidson retired in 1980.

References

• Art Meripol, "An Architect's Architect," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, April 2, 1989.