and skillful physicians," he said, "I am much better now." Personal life In 1898, he married Beatrice Rochon Taylor. They had four children, one of whom, Robert Rochon Taylor, became a noted housing advocate in Chicago. Beatrice's younger sister was teacher and pharmacist Etnah Rochon Boutte. After Beatrice died in 1906, Robert remarried in 1912 to Nellie Chestnutt; they had one child. Death He died on December 13, 1942, while attending services in the Tuskegee Chapel, the building that he considered his most outstanding achievement as an architect. He was buried at the Pine Forest Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina. Legacy The Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University is named for Taylor. The housing project in Chicago, Robert Taylor Homes, was named after his son, Robert Rochon Taylor, a civic leader and former Chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. The US Postal Service has a postage stamp with his likeness. His great-granddaughter, Valerie Jarrett, was a senior advisor to Former President Barack Obama. Projects Huntington Hall (1900) Emery dormitories 4 buildings (1900) Dorothy Hall (1901) Tuskegee Institute Women's Trades Building (1901) Carnegie Library (1901) Administration Building (1902–03) Rockefeller Hall (1903) Men's residence Hall (1904) Douglass Hall (1904) Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building academic building(1904–05) Tantum Hall (1907) Milbank Agriculture Building (1909) Tompkins Hall, dining facility (1910) White Hall, women's dormitory (1910) John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital (1913) Laundry, now The George Washington Carver Museum (1915) James Hall (1921) Prince Hall Masonic Temple (1924) Sage Hall (1927) Wilcox Trade Buildings, architecture buildings (1928) Logan Hall, old gym (1931) Armstrong Science Building (1932) Hollis Burke Frissell Library (1932) References External links Robert R. Taylor, First Black Student at MIT (MIT Black History Project) 1868 births 1942 deaths People from Wilmington, North Carolina MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni African-American architects 19th-century American architects Fayetteville State University Tuskegee University faculty 20th-century African-American people 20th-century American architects