Roscoe DeWitt

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Roscoe DeWitt
Born 1894
Died 1975
Nationality American
Education Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Occupation architect

Roscoe DeWitt (1894–1975) was an American architect.

Biography

Early life

Roscoe Plimpton DeWitt was born 1894.[1] He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1914 and received his MA in architecture from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1917.[1]

Military

During the First World War, he served as a Captain in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps.[1] During the Second World War, he served in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, safeguarding historical buildings in the French countryside.[1]

Architecture

Together with Mark Lemmon (1889–1975), he designed the Sunset High School, the Woodrow Wilson High School, some buildings on the campus of Southern Methodist University, and the Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas.[1][2][3]

Together with Arch B. Swank, Jr. (1913–1999), he designed buildings of the Parkland Memorial Hospital, two Neiman Marcus stores, Stanley Marcus's private residence, all in Dallas.[1] Additionally, in Jacksonville, Florida, they designed the St. Vincent’s Medical Center.[1]

In the latter part of his career, he helped restore the original Senate and Supreme Court buildings and the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C..[1] He also helped design the Dallas neighborhood of Wynnewood.

Affiliations

He served on the Boards of Directors of the Dallas Opera and on the Advisory Board for the Texas Commission on Arts and Humanities.[1] Additionally, he was a member of the Dallas Historical Society, the Texas Philosophical Society, the Royal Society of Arts, the American Federation of Arts, the Harvard Club of New York, and the Cosmos Club, a gentlemen's club in Washington, D.C..[1]

Death

He died on November 2, 1975.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 [http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/dewitt-maj.-roscoe-p. Roscoe Plimpton DeWitt ( 1894–1975 )], Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
  2. ↑ Winters, Willis, “Mark Lemmon,” Texas Architect, November–December 1989
  3. ↑ Robert Wilonsky, As Marcus House Works Its Way Toward Historic Designation, Lessons Learned, Dallas Observer, January 21, 2010
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