Retired architect E. Crawley Cooper died on October 25, 2014 at the age of 81. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana; he and his surviving wife and childhood friend, Jane (Peek) Cooper had been married for nearly 58 years. Crawley graduated in architecture from both the University of Cincinnati (AIA Student Medal) and MIT (scholarship). In 1957, he was the youngest person to pass the professional exam to become a practicing architect in the state of Indiana. He has contributed to the design of nearly 50 civic, religious, educational, and commercial projects, including the Northwest High School, B'nai Torah Synagogue and Third Christian Church in Indianapolis, LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts (NYC), four buildings on the MIT campus, the Springfield Civic Center, Baystate West - a garage, two story shopping center, 30 story office tower and 15 story hotel complex, in Springfield (MA) - the Cumberland County Civic Center (ME), the Providence Public Safety Building, master plan of George Mason University, MGH Lawrence Martin Laboratories, South Lab at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School renovation and addition, Boston Federal Court House, One Washington Mall office building (a BRA design competition), and the Elsie Sweeney residence in Columbus, Indiana. Following graduation he worked with MIT Dean Pietro Belluschi and professors, Lawrence Anderson and Eduardo Catalano. He was a principal in the architectural firm of Jung|Brannen and Associates, Inc. for nearly 25 years. During that period he was also a guest lecturer at Harvard, MIT, Purdue University, National Institutes of Health and the University of Wisconsin. He authored the textbook, A Handbook of Laboratory Design. He served on several volunteer First Parish Church and Town of Lincoln committees, and served as Chair of the Planning Board. He was an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs. Crawley served as a consultant with Arthur D. Little on the design of a conference center for the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. In 1979 he designed the stage set for Twelfth Night, at the DeCordorva Museum Park. Following his retirement in 2002, he compiled Seeds of the Civil War (3 volumes) and A Civil Diary War (23 volumes) which included many eyewitness and contemporaneous newspaper accounts. He also wrote Dogma Evolution & Papal Fallacies, an unveiled history of Roman Catholicism under a pseudonym, Imma Penn. In 2012 Crawley was named "Volunteer of the Year" for the Lincoln Council on Aging where he founded the "Lincoln Academy" in 2008. Besides his wife Jane, Crawley is survived by his sister Carolyn Jane Cook of San Antonio, Texas, daughter, Kristin Looise & son-in-law Petter Knutrud of Westborough, Massachusetts, and son John (Deke) Dietrich Cooper of Woburn, Massachusetts. Another son, Reed Cooper, pre-deceased his father in 2010. Crawley and Jane Cooper have four grandsons, Alexander Knutrud, Nils Knutrud, Michael Cooper and John Cooper. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on December 6, 2014 at the First Parish Church in Lincoln. Call 781-259-8118 for particulars. Contributions in his memory may be sent to The First Parish in Lincoln, P.O. Box 6218, Lincoln, MA 01773 or to the Friends of the Lincoln Council on Aging, c/o Town offices, 16 Lincoln Road, Lincoln, MA 01773. To leave a message for the family in our Guest Book, please visit www.DeeFuneralHome.com.