Background
Clarence Kelley Colley was born on February 21, 1869 in Wilson County, Tennessee. His father was Seth Colley and his mother, Fidelia Elizabeth Smith.
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He designed many buildings in Tennessee, some of which are on the campuses of Middle Tennessee State University and Austin Peay State University. Other buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He had a brother, Homer.
Colley grew up on a farm, until he moved to Nashville to work in the boiler room at Vanderbilt University as a young manitoba
Colley was an apprentice to architects Albert F. Speight and William Crawford Smith. He established C. K. Colley & Company Architects, an architectural firm in Nahville, in 1899.
Colley designed two buildings on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in 1911: the President's House and Kirksey Hall. Additionally, he designed the Commons Building on the campus of Austin Peay State University in 1916.
Meanwhile, Colley designed the North Branch Carnegie Library in Nashville in 1915.
He designed the Perry County Courthouse in Linden, Tennessee. He also designed the Wilkinson House in Joelton, Tennessee. Colley died on July 8, 1956 in Nashville, Tennessee.
He was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Several of the buildings he designed, like the Perry County Courthouse and the Wilkinson House, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Membership
Colley was a charter member of the Nashville chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1922.
