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Source:             Sesquicentennial Supplement III, Ledger-Enquirer
Name:               Raymond M. Wright
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    4 Men Were Keys to Construction:
                 Jones, Williams, Jordan and Wright.
 ( This is a very large article, so I will post each builder seperate.Three of 
the builders has pictures, there is no picture for Seaborn Jones. CGT) 

                          By william Rowe 
                        Ledger Staff Writer


  Raymond M. Wright figures he has built at least 2,200 homes in his 28 years 
in Columbus.
This is enough to make an unbroken line of houses on l00-foot lots extending 
for 41.47 miles.
  Wright is also the developer of Hilton Mobile Home Park, one of the largest 
in Georgia, with 600 spaces.
  In the one year of 1972 alone, Wright was responsible for 200 houses rising 
in Carriage Hills near Cross Country Shopping Center in Columbus. He developed 
Boxwood subdivision, Hilton Heights Park in the Clubview and Hardaway school 
areas.
  He once operated as a homebuilder with four companies at once, he was at one 
time a partner with the late Charlie Frank Williams, and he was associated with 
a group including Cason Callaway. Ed Gates and Frank Foley in the development 
of the Mohina Woods neighborhood of homes.
  Another Ray Wright development is the $11 million Dimon Head between St. 
Mary's and Steam Mill Roads just west of the Lindsay Creek Bypass. This is an 
area of 86.3 acres planned with 50 acres for single family residences and 
nearly 30 acres for townhouses and garden apartments. 
  Wright also built Holly Hills Shopping Center on St. Mary's Road. His 
building includes Atlanta and Phenix City, where he put up the Coweta apartment 
project.
  Volume of production may be less recognized than Wright's status as a builder 
of distinctive homes, and his innovations in building.
  His Ray M. Wright Inc; claIms front-runner credit for introducing slab 
foundation construction and split level concepts to Columbus.
  Wright was born in Olean, New York, on Sept. 2, 1920, and was brought to 
Georgia by Army parachute school training at Fort Benning. His wife was the 
former Jane Regal from Haddonfield, N.J. They have two sons, Ernest and Jack.
  He studied at the Weaver Academy School of Design in New York and in the 
University of Georgia extension program in Columbus.
  Venturing into business in Columbus in 1949, he had a house built and it 
looked so easy that he founded his company and plunged into his career calling. 
  Wright feels new products, designs and ideas are the heart of his building, 
and he liked to build modern, colonial, ranch style and various designs that 
are distinctive and avoid sameness.
  He was an area award winner for building Georgia's first Horizon home at 2958 
Birchfield Drive in Hilton Heights in 1961. His scrapbook records his saying 
that "planned use of concrete and concrete products opened my eyes, as well as 
those of thousands of Georgia Citizens who viewed this house."   Wright is 
among nominees for an upcoming selection for the National Home Builders 
Association Hall of Fame.
  He has served as president of home builders associations of Columbus and 
Phenix City and of the Georgia state body, is a national director and budget 
committeeman of the national association.
  He is a member of Columbus Country Club, Green Island Country Club, Big Eddy 
Club, Rotary Club board of directors, and a director of Columbus Bank & Trust 
Co. 
  He views Columbus as a healthy business community with economic stability and 
steady growth.
  Wright sees the future requiring great concern and thorough study of every 
practical method of saving energy and making homes more economical, even for 
those who could afford to waste. 



Special Sesquicentennial Supplement III
Ledger- Enquirer, Sunday, April 30, 1978, pg S-28.

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