Rexford G. Newcomb (April 24, 1886 – March 16, 1968) was an American
architectural historian.
Biography
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
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...
.
He married Ruth Bergen on October 24, 1911 in
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita ( ) is the List of cities in Kansas, most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397, ...
; 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.]Princeton, Illinois
Princeton is a city in and the county seat of Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,832 at the 2020 census.
Princeton is part of the Ottawa, Illinois, Ottawa Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, Micropolitan Statistic ...
.
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.
Selected books
* Reprinted by Dover Publications
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker. It primarily reissues books that are out of print from their original publishers. These are often, but not always, book ...
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
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker. It primarily reissues books that are out of print from their original publishers. These are often, but not always, book ...
in 1990.
*
*
* [Reviews of ''Architecture in Old Kentucky'':
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
]
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Newcomb, Rexford
1886 births
1968 deaths
American architectural historians
University of Kansas alumni
University of Illinois School of Architecture alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Southern California faculty
Texas A&M University faculty
American university and college faculty deans
Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Historians from Texas
Historians from California
20th-century American academics