Pioneer Information
Born in Lafayette, Indiana, Pauley began his studies at Purdue University, where he received a B.S. in 1916. After graduating, Pauley continued his studies at Massachusetts Agricultural College, earning an M.L.A. in 1918. During his graduate studies, Pauley worked for the Massachusetts Rural Civic Planning Commission and taught drawing at Massachusetts State College. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War I, he relocated to Atlanta, working for several local landscape firms before opening his own practice in 1923, the first professional landscape architecture firm in the city.
Pauley’s early work focused on high-end residential design, but later expanded to include government housing projects, college campuses, commercial and public spaces. He had a prolific practice, working on hundreds of different projects, including every major college campus in Georgia, over the course of his career. Notable projects that he was involved with include the plans for the Bankshaven and Moccasin Hollow estates, Winn Park and Hurt Park in Atlanta, and the core of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Pauley became the first licensed landscape architect in Georgia. In 1965, shortly before his retirement in 1968, he was made a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
