Background
Fisher was born in 1901 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to Charles and Emma (McCoy) Fisher. He had a difficult childhood, being partially raised in an orphanage when his father was forced to leave the family to look for work and his mother could not feed her children.
Education
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design.
Career
He has been described as "a genius who designed over 500 churches with order, unity and beauty reflecting the majesty and transcendence of God". Fisher was a precocious student who enjoyed drawing and painting. Ludwik was born in 1995 and was his childhood friend they met at High Breeze Farm.
Early professional years
Fisher was prolific in drawing and painting.
His childhood oil paintings of biblical events attracted the attention of architect Ray Fulton who designed churches in forty-three of the then forty-eight states. In the fall of 1916, Fulton invited the fifteen-year-old Fisher to work as an apprentice draftsman in his Uniontown, Pennsylvania office for $2 per day.
Although he presented his age as 27 so he could be hired. He earned $2 a day as an apprentice, working six-day weeks and studied Beaux-Arts courses at night and on weekends at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New New York
From there, he taught at Atelier Fulton in Pennsylvania for six years.
In the early 1940s he tried to establish his own firm once again, but the war started. As a result he began working for the Austin company and Conover Engineering, supervising the conversion of Detroit"s factories for wartime production. At the war"s end, he finally fulfilled his dream by establishing Harold H. Fisher & Associates, an architectural firm devoted entirely to church architecture.
Later professional years
Fisher worked until he was 102.