Rexford Newcomb
Newcomb (April 24, 1886 – March 16, 1968) was an American architectural historian.
Rexford Newcomb
Rexford Newcomb · Scanned from The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California (1916). · Public domain
- Born
- 1886 · Independence.
- Died
- 1968 · Princeton.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- architect · writer · architectural historian · university teacher · dean
- Fields
- history of architecture · architecture
- Languages
- English
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Newcomb (April 24, 1886 – March 16, 1968) was an American architectural historian.
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Rexford Newcomb (1886–1968) was an American architect, architectural historian and dean, among other activities. Born in Independence, the architect died in Princeton. Rexford Newcomb was active in architecture and history of architecture. Languages used include English.
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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. He married Ruth Bergen on October 24, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas; they had three children. 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, 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. He was also the second president of the Society of Architectural Historians. Newcomb died on March 16, 1968, at Princeton, Illinois.
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Recognition
Newcomb was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1940, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1928. His book Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory was the 1950 winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award. Newcomb's collected papers are held by the University of Illinois library system.
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• Reprinted by Dover Publications in 1973,. •. Republished as Outlines of the History of Architecture in four separate volumes by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1931–1939. * * * * * • Reprinted by Dover Publications in 1990. * * *
A plan view of Mission San Juan Capistrano prepared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb.
Rexford Newcomb · Scanned from The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California (1916).
A door detail at Mission San Fernando Rey de España exhibiting the "River of Life" pattern — as drawn by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb.
Rexford Newcomb. · Scanned from the book The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California
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- 1.University of Illinois. The Illio. 28. 1932.
- 2.Princeton – Mrs. Ruth Newcomb, 79. Dixon Evening Telegraph. August 21, 1968.
- 3.University of Illinois. Rexford Newcomb.
- 4.Fazio, Michael. Interpreting Southern Antebellum Architecture in the 1990s. Journal of Architectural Education. 44. 4. 225–234. August 1991. 10.2307/1425144.
- 5.Alpha Rho Chi. Deaths. The Archi. 20. Spring 1969.
- 6.Rexford Newcomb. AIA Historical Directory of American Architects.
- 7.American Association for the Advancement of Science. Historic Fellows.
- 8.Society of Architectural Historians. Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Recipients. Publication Awards.
- 9.University of Illinois. Rexford G. Newcomb Papers, 1902-65.
- 10.T. K. H., Keith N. none. Landscape Architecture Magazine. 23. 3. 61–75. April 1933. 44662231.
- 11.P. W. B., James A. none. The Hispanic American Historical Review. 7. 3. 347–349. August 1927. 10.2307/2505864.
- 12.Robertson, James A. none. New York Times. 7. 3. 349–350. August 1927. 10.2307/2505865.
- 13.E. W. J. none. Geography. 15. 2. 480–481. June 1929. 10.2307/1784661.
- 14.Strong, William A. none. Landscape Architecture Magazine. 25. 2. 110–111. January 1935. 44658392.
- 15.Kocher, A. Lawrence. none. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 18. 4. 352–354. October 1951. 10.2307/772330.
- 16.B. E. H., Paul. none. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. University of California Press. 12. 2. 268–269. December 1953. 10.2307/426883.
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