Rexford G. Newcomb (April 24, 1886 – March 16, 1968) was an American architectural historian.
Newcomb was born in Independence, Kansas, on April 24, 1886. After undergraduate study at the University of Kansas, he earned both a second bachelor's degree in architecture and a master's in architecture at the University of Illinois, and a master of arts at the University of Southern California. [1] He married Ruth Bergen on October 24, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas; they had three children. [2]
After stints teaching at the Long Beach Polytechnic High School and Long Beach Evening High School, University of Southern California and Texas A&M University, [1] Newcomb returned to the University of Illinois as a faculty member in 1918. He remained there until 1954. He served as dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts from 1932 to 1954. [3] [4] He was also the second president of the Society of Architectural Historians. [5]
Newcomb died on March 16, 1968, at Princeton, Illinois. [6]
Newcomb was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1940, [7] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1928. [8] His book Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory was the 1950 winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award. [9]
Newcomb's collected papers are held by the University of Illinois library system. [3]
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