{{short description|American architect}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
'''William Winstead Thomas''' (1848–1904)<ref name=nrhpdoc-jackson>{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/80001096_text|title=Thematic National Register Nomination - Georgia Courthouses Architectural Survey: Jackson County Courthouse|publisher=National Park Service|author=|date=|access-date=August 3, 2016|archive-date=November 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120123312/https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/80001096_text|url-status=live}} (including two photos)</ref> was an American insurance company president and an architect.
He was president of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company.<ref name=nrhpdoc-jackson/>
Several of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> [[File:Seney-Stovall Chapel, Athens, GA.jpg|thumb|Seney–Stovall Chapel in 2015]] He designed the Octagon Mode Seney–Stovall Chapel, a $10,000 structure octagonal red brick building funded by George I. Seney.<ref name="jones">{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Charles Edgeworth|editor=Herbert Baxter Adams|editor-link=Herbert Baxter Adams|title=Education in Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VesTAAAAIAAJ&q=Lucy+Cobb+Institute&pg=PA116|series=Contributions to American educational history|volume=5|year=1889|pages=110–112}}</ref><ref name="cviog">{{cite web|url=http://www.cviog.uga.edu/about/chapel/history.php|title=Seney-Stovall Chapel History|publisher=Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia|access-date=11 February 2011|archive-date=July 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720084901/http://www.cviog.uga.edu/about/chapel/history.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=thomas-koch>{{cite book|last1=Thomas|first1=Frances Taliaferro|last2=Koch|first2=Mary Levin|title=A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County, Second edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-8jFTZDrIwC&q=lucy+cobb+institute&pg=PA130|year=2009|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-1356-6}}</ref>
His architectural works include: *Jackson County Courthouse (1879), Jefferson, Georgia, one of his earlier works, NRHP-listed *Seney-Stovall Chapel (1882–85), Lucy Cobb Institute Campus, 200 N. Milledge Ave., University of Georgia campus Athens, Georgia (Thomas, W.W.), NRHP-listed *Oconee County Courthouse (no longer extant) *Thomas-Carithers House, 530 S. Milledge Ave. Athens, Georgia, NRHP-listed *White Hall, Whitehall and Simonton Bridge Rds., outside Atlanta in Whitehall, Georgia, NRHP-listed. One of his most notable residential works. *McDaniel-Tichenor House, 319 McDaniel St. Monroe, Georgia, NRHP-listed *One or more works in NRHP-listed McDaniel Street Historic District, S. Broad and McDaniel Streets, Monroe, Georgia
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