User:Cmoyer1/Roy Sealey

= Roy A. Sealey = Roy A. Sealey was a Black architect known for his work in Southern California in the second half of the 20th century. Sealey's most prominent work is the now demolished SeaPort Marina Hotel, a Googie style work of architecture. He worked with the famed Black architect Paul R. Williams.

Education & Career
Sealey was born in Panama and immigrated to the U.S. via Ellis Island in 1924. He attended the public HCBU, Prairie View A&M University in Texas, and transferred to the University of Southern California where he studied architecture on an academic scholarship. After graduating, he worked as a draftsman in the office of Paul R. Williams. In 1945, Sealey left to start his own firm designing luxury homes and commercial buildings in Los Angeles. In 1963, Sealey was chosen to design the SeaPort Marina Hotel, more recently known as the Edgewater Inn Marina Hotel.