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Earl Simcox Swensson, FAIA (July 28, 1930 – January 20, 2022) was an American architect who was the founder of Earl Swensson Associates (ESA), an architectural firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm has designed many notable buildings in Nashville, including the Batman Building, Centennial Medical Center and Opryland Hotel (including its three expansions).
Swensson graduated from Virginia Tech, where he earned a bachelor's degree in architecture.[2] He also earned a master's degree in architecture from the University of Illinois.[2]
Career
Swensson began his career in Nashville in 1951, when he was a student draftsman for Hart & McBryde. Swensson went to Chicago, where he worked for Perkins and Will, only to move back to Nashville.[1]
AT&T Building, Nashville TN
Swensson founded Earl Swensson Associates (ESa), an architectural firm based in Nashville, in 1961.[1] The firm moved to a new building at 2303 21st Avenue South in 1975.[3] By 1998, his office was in the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Office Building in Midtown Nashville which his namesake firm designed. In 2015, the firm, now referred to as ESa, moved to The Gulch.[4]