
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 26, 1994                   TAG: 9401260205
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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PAUL HAYES, FOUNDER OF ARCHITECTURAL FIRM, DIES

E. Paul Hayes, a founding partner of Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern, died Monday after a brief illness. He was 87.

Hayes, who was the lone architect among the four founding partners in the firm, designed many well-known structures throughout the state. These included the American Theater and the 1929 Norfolk & Western general office building.

"Since he was the only architect at the start - the other three were engineers - he was responsible for a lot of work," said Boyd Dickenson, an engineer who is retired from the firm. "He was really a self-made person as far as his architectural work was concerned."

Hayes grew up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. He began his career with Smithey & Boynton in Roanoke before helping found Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern in 1947.

Dickenson said the founding partners - Hayes, Guilford Seay, Gil Mattern and Ed Mattern - merged their resources after World War II in order to secure large government contracts.

Early on, the firm was awarded contracts for the modernization of the Radford Army Ammunition Plant and the expansion of the Oceana Naval Base in Virginia Beach.

Recently, Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern stepped into national prominence when it received a contract to refurbish a section of the Pentagon.

by CNB