Background
Louis Henry Wilson was born in 1857 in Newport, Kentucky, United States. A son of a builder and contractor.
Louis Henry Wilson was born in 1857 in Newport, Kentucky, United States. A son of a builder and contractor.
At the age of eighteen graduated at the High School in in Newport. He studied Architectural Drawing at the Ohio Mechanics Institute in Cincinnati.
After studying he began work with his father in 1877, and three years later set up his own office in Newport for architectural practice. Continuing active through the years, Mr. Wilson designed several buildings in the city, including the seven- story Finance Building, several schools and a number of private homes.