Philip Thornton Marye (1872-1935) was an American architect who was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He studied at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, from 1888 to 1889, and at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1889 to 1890. Marye served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War (1898) as a member of the Fourth Virginia Volunteers. He rose to the rank of major in World War I (1917-1918). Marye married Florence King Nisbet of Savannah, Georgia, in 1900. Early in his architectural career, Marye practiced in Newport, Virginia, after briefly training with architect Glenn Brown in Washington, D.C. In 1904, Marye moved to Atlanta and built the Terminal Station (1903-1905). After completing the Terminal Station, Marye designed St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta (1906) with the help of architect A. Ten Eyck Brown. In 1909, Marye built Highlands Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1910, he built the Walton Building in the Fairlie Poplar district of Atlanta.

Marye designed his home (1913-1914) while he simultaneously designed the Gentry-McClinton House, now considered an Atlanta landmark. During the 1920s, the firm of Marye, Alger, and Alger designed Daniel C. O'Keefe Junior High School (1922-1923) and the Georgian revival Randolph-Lucas House (1924). In 1926, the firm added Oliver Vinour and changed the name of the firm to Marye, Alger, and Vinour. The firm won the commission to build the Yaarab Temple (later the Fox Theatre) which opened at the end of 1929. The firm also won a major commission to build the downtown Southern Bell Telephone Building (later the AT&T building). Marye also served as district officer of the Historic American Buildings Survey and as consultant to the American Institute of Architects Commission for the Preservation of Historic Buildings in America. He was a member of the vestry of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Marye was the president of both the Lions Club and the Georgia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and he served as a member of the Druid Hills Golf Club, the Atlanta Athletic Club, and the Piedmont Driving Club. Marye received the highest honor afforded a Mason, the Thirty-Second degree of Masonry.