{{Short description|American historical preservationist and architectural salvager (1947–2021)}} {{Infobox person |name = Larry Wayne Giles |image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> |image_upright = |landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> |alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|11|01}} |birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri |death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|06|12|1947|11|01}} |death_place = |education = |occupation = |employer = |organization = National Building Arts Center |known_for = Architectural preservation and salvage, research library |boards = |awards = |website = {{URL|nationalbuildingarts.org/}} |footnotes = }} '''Larry Giles''' (November 1, 1947 - June 12, 2021) was an American historical preservationist and pioneering architectural salvager who founded the National Building Arts Center.<ref name="Holleman">{{cite news |last = Holleman |first = Joe |title = Remembering Larry Giles, the man who saved St. Louis |newspaper = St. Louis Post-Dispatch |pages = |date = June 24, 2021 |url = https://www.stltoday.com/news/subscriber/holleman-remembering-larry-giles-the-man-who-saved-st-louis/article_b3699aa7-ea67-5952-a298-c5817e0dcb12.html }}</ref> He was also an important figure in the operations of the early community radio station, KDNA, a predecessor to KDHX.<ref name="NextSTL">{{cite web |url = https://nextstl.com/2021/08/remembering-larry-giles-memorial-event-this-saturday/ |title = Remembering Larry Giles: Memorial Event this Saturday |date = August 6, 2021 |website = Next STL |access-date = 2021-08-07 }}</ref>
==Death== Giles died of complications due to leukemia on June 12, 2021.<ref name="Naffziger">{{cite news |url = https://www.stlmag.com/history/larry-giles/ |newspaper = St. Louis Magazine |title = Remembering St. Louis architecture guru and curator Larry Giles |date = June 21, 2021 |last = Naffziger |first= Chris |access-date = 2021-08-07 }}</ref>
== See also == * Bob Cassilly
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