Anthony Lord continued his father's practice alone. In contrast with his father, he was a committed, though not doctrinaire,
modernist. Of his few independent works the most important were the vernacular stone Dillingham Presbyterian Church (1934) in rural Buncombe County and the
Asheville Citizen-Times Building (1939), designed in the
Art Deco style with consulting architects and engineers
Lockwood Greene. He was also employed as associate architect for the Sprinza Weizenblatt house (1941) in Asheville, designed by
Marcel Breuer. While that house was under construction Lord was president of AIA North Carolina and invited Breuer to be the featured speaker at the chapter's annual meeting in 1941. In 1942 Lord and other local architects were having trouble gaining wartime government contracts, the only architectural work available. To try to win these contracts, Lord and five other architects from western North Carolina–William W. Dodge Jr., Henry I. Gaines, W. Stewart Rogers and Charles Waddell of Asheville and
Erle G. Stillwell of Hendersonville–combined their firms and formed Six Associates. The association was loose until 1951, when it was formalized. Lord's most prominent work as a member of that firm was the D. Hiden Ramsey Library (1963) of the
University of North Carolina at Asheville, designed in the
New Formalist idiom of modernism. Lord was active in the firm until 1970, when he retired. In 2000 that firm was acquired by Harley Ellington Design of
Southfield to form
Harley Ellis. In 2002 the Asheville office was bought by Calloway, Johnson, Moore & West of
Winston-Salem, successors to the legacy of
Willard C. Northup. That firm, known as CJMW since 2010, no longer maintains an Asheville office. ==Architectural works==