Click image to enlarge. In a city that drew the eyes of the world for its aggressive defense of segregation, the Windham Construction Company Office Building is a remarkable reminder of successful African American businesses that fl ourished in the “separate-butequal” society imagined by Plessy v. Ferguson. The Windham Office Building was home to Windham Brothers Construction Company, a major black construction firm that erected some of the most significant buildings in Birmingham’s black communities. Wallace Rayfield, the second formally educated African American architect to practice his profession in the United States, designed the building. Though listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the structure is unoccupied and consistently threatened by vandalism and other crimes.
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