Background
Parker was the son of Hugh Parker, Senior (1909-2007) and the former Jewel Flynn (died 1988), originally from Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish.
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Hugh Parker
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In 1952, he graduated from Bastrop High School. Four years later, he received a degree in architectural engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Career
He overcame the worst impact of polio as a youth to design during a 45-year career many public and private buildings, most in North Louisiana. In 1949, at the age of fifteen, Parker contracted polio and underwent treatment in New Orleans and thereafter recuperation in Warm Springs, Georgia. He was a Paul P. Harris fellow of Rotary International of Monroe, Louisiana.
Parker began practicing solo in 1959.
In 1961, he joined the firm founded in the 1940s by the late Allen Turpin. The company underwent several transitions before it assumed the name "Hugh G. Parker, Junior., Architect, Incorporated." in 1988 in Monroe.
Parker was particularly known for his design of government and educational buildings, churches, residential homes, financial institutions, and state parks, such as Lake Claiborne State Park near Homer, Louisiana. His best known projects were the Monroe/West Monroe Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Wyly Tower of Learning at Louisiana Technical University in Ruston, and the football arena (Malone Stadium), the baseball stadium, and the activities center at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Parker designed the city hall and police station in Bastrop.
Parker worked for school boards on such projects as the gymnasiums for Morehouse Junior High School and his alma mater, Bastrop High School. He handled some fifty construction projects for various school boards in Ouachita, Claiborne, Richland, and Franklin parishes, as well as the Monroe City Schools.He also designed the Ouachita Independent Bank in West Monroe. Parker was affiliated with the American Institute of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
Parker retired in 2004.In 2006, Timothy Mark "Tim" Brandon (born August 1967) acquired the Parker firm and relocated it to West Monroe, with branch offices in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Dallas, Texas.
Parker died the next year at the age of seventy-four. Services were held at the First Baptist Church of Bastrop, of which he was a member.
Membership
In 2002, he was member of the regents of the Louisiana Architectural Foundation.
