Lawrence R. Good was born November 6, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended Peru State Teachers College in Nebraska from 1942-1943 before joining the U.S. Army during World War II. While in the Army, he received a diploma from the University of Idaho for the Army Specialized Training Program and served in the European Theater before being honorably discharged in 1946. In 1945 he also received a certificate from the Architectural Association of London, England, through a training within civilian agencies program offered through the Army. Good received a bachelors in architecture from Kansas State University in 1952 and a masters of archtecture from the University of Kansas in 1963.

Good held a student apprenticeship with John Latenser & Sons in Omaha from 1947-1948. He then served as a designer with firms in Wichita, Kansas (Benedick and Hines, 1953-1955) and Kansas City, Missouri (Gentry and Voskamp, 1955-1959). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, while working on his masters at KU, Good was both a principal archtiect with Hardy, Schumacher and Good and was an instructor in architecture at KU.

From 1964-1965, Good served as director of a research program into architectural environment and human behavior. From 1965-1970 he was president of the Environmental Research Foundation in Topeka, Kansas.

Lawrence Good was in private practice from 1968 until his retirement and was a licensed architect in both Kansas and Missouri. He designed both commercial and residential buildings. Some of his notable public buildings included the Biddle Rehabilitation Center at Osawatomie State Hospital in Kansas; the University of Kansas School of Law building (Green Hall) and West Junior High School auditorium for the Lawrence, Kansas unified school district #497; a commmunity center remodel and Holcom Park recreation center for the Lawrence, Kansas Department of Parks & Recreation; an addition to the Alpha Iota Chapter House of the Theta Xi fraternity in Manhattan, KS; and an addition to the Valleyview Care Home in Lawrence, KS, among many other projects.

[Information in this note taken from collection materials.]