Member Thomas K. McLaughlin, Jr., AIA, Dies

Virginia member Thomas McLaughlin died Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. He had been treated for non-Hodgkins lymphoma for the past two years.

A native of Tarboro, N.C., McLaughlin graduated from N.C. State and went on to Harvard where he earned his MArch. He began his career in Boston, designing the city’s Children’s Museum and a transportation museum, and came to Richmond, Va., in 1989. He worked with Moseley McClintock Group, Rose Architects and was a principal with Odell Associates, before finishing his career with his own firm. He is well known for his work on the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, the Richmond Newspapers Inc. production building, the former Heilig-Meyers headquarters, the St. Francis Cancer Center, the Oliver Hill Courts Building, and courts facilities in Spotsylvania County, Henry County and Hopewell.

A memorial service will be held at the Virginia Center for Architecture on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, at 4:30 p.m.