William J. Peters, AIA
Principal
Bill is the Owner and Principal Architect at Bill Peters Architects, Inc. He has been a practicing Registered Architect in the city of Huntsville for over twenty years. For eight years, he was Principal and Partner in the Crow Peters Neville Group prior to starting his own practice in 1997. His project experience includes project design and management of new construction and of major additions and renovations to educational facilities, municipal buildings, industrial and commercial complexes, and tenant-specific build-outs. Bill has a strong background in master planning for local and regional developers and for municipal planning groups. He is also very accomplished in the field of historic preservation and renovation.
Born in Pensacola, Florida, Bill spent his childhood in Huntsville, where his father was a local manager for Boeing on the Saturn V rocket program. After a short time living in Rome, Italy, Bill moved to Alexandria, Louisiana. It was in his teens that Bill decided to practice architecture and matriculated and enrolled at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
During the time he was a student at LSU, the architectural curriculum included urban planning and interaction with actual, practicing real estate developers. Upon graduating from LSU, Bill returned to Huntsville and began his career by working on commercial real estate projects. His initial work eventually led him to work on projects for developers and commercial tenants in multiple states.
In the early nineties, Bill began working on historic and custom residential projects with a renovation to a house built in 1912. Word of mouth from that project opened for Bill a new realm of practice in historic preservation and in other custom residential projects; that practice continues to flourish today.
An early follower of the developing New Urbanism style, Bill sought to educate himself further in these planning concepts while simultaneously furthering his understanding of style specific traditional architectural detailing. He served for a number of years on the AIA National Historic Resources Committee. He has been on the board of the Historic Huntsville Foundation and served as the Foundation’s liaison with the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Main Street study for downtown Huntsville.
