Look anywhere in the Valley and you’ll read the late Reginald Gene Sydnor, AIA, signature: the 1957 Motorola Governmental Electronics Plant, Scottsdale; 1960 ASU Hiram Bradford Farmer Education Building, Tempe; 1969 St. Luke’s Hospital and Medical Center Major Expansion, Phoenix; and six homes from the 1960s and 1970s. The native of Bellpoint, West Virginia, pioneered post-World War II Phoenix architecture, with notables such as Edward L. Varney, a principal of Varney Sexton Sydnor Architects with whom Sydnor worked for much of his Phoenix career. During 42 years of practice, most in Arizona from 1955 to 1991, “Reg” (“Redge”) completed 250 projects in Arizona, Washington and California. Sydnor’s architectural legacy continues with one of his sons, Doug, who says, “He went through life with the utmost integrity, delivered every promise without exception and brought balanced judgment and fairness to every situation.”
