He gained commissions to build speculative housing from prosperous clients such as the Wormley family, Dr. John Francis and Douglass Syphax, but was not asked to build homes or churches for the black elite of the city.
In the late 1800s Syphax was involved in speculative real-estate, employing the African American architect Calvin Brent to design houses for him.
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