custom plans cost upwards of $100. Wilburn is most associated with Craftsman style homes, but she also created plan books of brick, ranch and colonial homes. Wilburn touted her home making expertise as a woman, writing: “Being a woman I feel that I may know the little things that should go in it to make living in the house a pleasure to the entire family.” However, Wilburn did not necessarily encourage other women to enter the field. She felt that the long training and low initial pay meant that architecture was only a good choice for women committed to a long professional career. During World War I Wilburn worked as a civilian for the War Department in 1918 at Fort McPherson, in southwest Atlanta, and in World War II she served as an engineering draftsman. Later life and death Wilburn practiced as an architect until her death in 1967. She is buried in Decatur Cemetery. Legacy According to architectural historian Robert Craig, Wilburn is Georgia's most prolific architect. She designed at least eighty houses, twenty apartment buildings and twenty-four duplexes in Atlanta. Many of the homes in the MAK Historic District in Decatur were also designed by Wilburn. Wilburn homes can also be seen in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Michigan. Every May, the City of Decatur and the Decatur Preservation Commission hand out the Leila Ross Wilburn Award for individuals or organizations that promote preservation and/or excellence in design. The Leila Ross Wilburn Papers at the Atlanta Historical Society document over 300 sets of house plans drawn by Wilburn. In 2018, Sarah J. Boykin and Susan M. Hunter published a survey of the southern homes built from Wilburn’s plan books, examining Wilburn’s architectural legacy and her achievements as a plan book architect. The University of Georgia Press described Wilburn's work as "appealing, historic homes and represent some of the richest examples of southern vernacular architecture to emerge from the plan book tradition." Works Works include (attribution): Horner Houses, 304 and 308 N. Fisher St. Burlington, NC (Wilburn, Leila Ross), NRHP-listed Hedrick-Ashley House, 310 S. 10th Ave., Lanett, Alabama (Wilburn, Leila Ross), 1916, Design No. 564, Page 48-49, Southern Homes And Bungalows, (built on custom plans) Kidd House, 222 Hartwell Rd. Lavonia, GA (Wilburn, Leila Ross), NRHP-listed Martin Historic District, Along both sides of GA 17 and the Norfolk Southern RR tracks Martin, GA (Wilburn, Leila Ross), NRHP-listed