Draft:Merrill C. Lee

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Merrill C. Lee was an architect in Virginia. He designed additions to the Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

He was part of the firm Lee, Smith, and Vandervoort. He served as president of the Virginia Society of American Institute of Architects from 1934-1936. His office created a "Perspective of State Government Complex" that was never built for Virginia's capital Richmond.

He corresponded with Milton L. Grigg. H. C. Gravely was his mother-in-law.

His son Harry G. Lee also became an architect. The University of Virginia has a Merrill C. Lee Scholarship.

Works

 * The Deanery (1925) at University of Richmond
 * Colonial Theater (1929) at 907 Caroline St. in Fredricksburg not the Galleria
 * Chatham (1931), restoration in Fredricksburg
 * Home for Needy Confederate Women / Home for Confederate Women (1932) 301 North Sheppard Street in Richmond. It and the Robinson House were transferred to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the 1990s who used it as the Center for Education and Outreach and later as the Pauley Center, housing the museum's Office of Statewide Partnerships
 * Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) addition (1954)
 * Congregation Beth Avanah Synagogue (Beth Ahabah), renovation and educational building wing
 * Summer Hill School addition (1951)