William Winstead Thomas

{{short description|American architect}}

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William Winstead Thomas (1848–1904){{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) was an American insurance company president and an architect.

He was president of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company.

Several of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.{{NRISref|2007a}}

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He designed the Octagon Mode Seney–Stovall Chapel, a $10,000 structure octagonal red brick building funded by George I. Seney.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}

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