Huntington Arms was designed by C. Wilmer Heery, Jr., who was born in Atlanta in 1904 and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) School of Architecture from 1922-1926 where he trained in the neo-classical tradition of the French École des Beaux Arts.

Prior to his graduation from Georgia Tech, Wilmer worked with Felch & Southwell Architects in the summer of 1925. After his graduation in 1926, he apprenticed with several Atlanta based firms including: Edwards & Saywood Architects; Daniel Beutell Architects; and Hentz, Adler & Shutze Architects. These firms flourished throughout the 1920s and produced some of the most important buildings in Atlanta.

Before Huntington was even completed in 1929, the stock market crashed prompting the Great Depression and virtually all architectural firms faced a collapse in their backlogs,

As a result, Wilmer faced very limited prospects in the early 1930s and so Heery and his new wife, Sara Elder moved back to her hometown of Athens, GA.

You can read more of his fascinating story as part of the history of Heery & Heery and the Brookwood Advisors.