Tony P. Wrenn

Tony P. Wrenn was an American architectural historian and preservation writer whose work focused on historic buildings, city landscapes, and regional history, especially in the American South. He is credited on books including America's Forgotten Architecture and The Architecture of Historic Richmond, and he also wrote Wilmington, North Carolina: An Architectural and Historical Portrait and Huntley: A Mason Family Country House.

His writing has a strong sense of place. Rather than treating architecture as something distant or technical, he presented buildings as part of everyday civic life, showing how homes, public landmarks, and older neighborhoods carry the memory of a community.

A North Carolina history blog identifies him as Tony Pentecost Wrenn and shares a portrait of him, but I wasn't able to confirm fuller biographical details such as exact birth and death dates from the sources I found. Even so, the record of his published work makes clear that he was an important interpreter of architectural heritage and historic preservation.