Roscoe DeWitt
| Roscoe DeWitt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1894 |
| Died | 1975 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Dartmouth College Harvard University |
| Occupation | architect |
Roscoe DeWitt (1894–1975) was an American architect.
Roscoe Plimpton DeWitt was born 1894. He was the first student enrolled at the school that eventually became St. Mark's School of Texas, graduating in 1910. 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.
During the First World War, he served as a captain in the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps. During the Second World War, he served as a major in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, safeguarding historical buildings in the French countryside. Their efforts were described in the book, Monuments Men.
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.
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. Additionally, in Jacksonville, Florida, they designed the St. Vincent’s Medical Center.
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