Paul S. Devrouax was an AfricanAmerican architect in Washington, D.C.. He founded the architectural design firm of DevrouaxPurnell, and helped design the Verizon Center, Nationals Park, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and the D.C. headquarters of Freddie Mac and Pepco. He codesigned the AfricanAmerican Civil War Memorial, and provided design adjustments to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
He was born in October 1942 to in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Paul Devrouax, Sr. and Freddie Warner Devrouax. He had two brothers, Edward and Charles, and was raised in New Orleans and Los Angeles, California. He graduated in 1966 with a degree in architecture from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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