{{short description|American architect (1913–1999)}}
{{Infobox person | name = Arch B. Swank Jr. | image = | caption = | birth_name = Arch Berry Swank Jr. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|6|2}} | birth_place = Wills Point, Texas, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|1|15|1913|6|2}} | death_place = Dallas, Texas, US | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Texas A&M University | employer = | occupation = Architect | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Patsy Swank | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Arch Berry Swank Jr.''' (June 2, 1913 – January 15, 1999) was an American architect.
==Biography==
===Early life=== Swank was born in Wills Point, Texas, on June 2, 1913.<ref name="archival">[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00082/aaa-00082.html Texas Archival Resources Online]{{Dead link|date=July 2025|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref name="tamu">{{Cite web |title=Arch B. Swank, Jr. - Past Honorees - College of Architecture |url=https://www.arch.tamu.edu/community/formerstudents/outstanding-alumni/past-honorees/84/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311022751/https://www.arch.tamu.edu/community/formerstudents/outstanding-alumni/past-honorees/84/ |archive-date=2016-03-11 |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=www.arch.tamu.edu |language=en}}</ref> He graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas in 1936.<ref name="tamu"/> He served in the United States Army during the Second World War.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/>
===Career=== [[File:Little Chapel in the Woods in Denton, Texas.jpg|thumb|right|Little Chapel in the Woods in Denton, Texas.]] From 1937 to 1941, he worked with architect O'Neil Ford (1905–1982).<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/> Together, and alongside Preston Geren Sr. (1891–1969), they designed the Little Chapel in the Woods in Denton, Texas.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Caraway |first=Georgia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rSEDYqnm6wsC&dq=Arch+B.+Swank+architect&pg=PA77 |title=Denton |last2=Cupit |first2=Kim |date=2009 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-7854-5 |language=en}}</ref>
From the end of World War II to 1952, he worked with architect Roscoe DeWitt (1894–1975).<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/> Together, they designed buildings of the Parkland Memorial Hospital, two Neiman Marcus stores, and Stanley Marcus's private residence, all in Dallas.<ref name="monuments">{{Cite web |title=The Heroes {{!}} Monuments Men and Women Foundation |url=https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/dewitt-maj.-roscoe-p. |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=MonumentsMenWomenFnd |language=en}}</ref> Additionally, in Jacksonville, Florida, they designed the St. Vincent’s Medical Center.<ref name="monuments"/> In 1951, he became President of the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/>
Together with O'Neil Ford, Richard Stewart Colley (1910–1983) and planner Sam Zisman (1908-1970), he designed the headquarters of Texas Instruments in Richardson, Texas in 1958.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/> Together, alongside Felix Candela (1910–1997), they also designed the industrial park for the Great Southwest Corporation in Arlington, Texas.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/>
He continued a private architectural practise from 1955 to the late 1970s.<ref name="archival"/> During that time, he designed the United Presbyterian Homes, a housing project for needy children and the elderly in Waxahachie, Texas.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/> He also designed a detention facility and a courthouse annex in Kerr County, Texas.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/>
===Personal life and death=== He was married to Patsy Swank, a journalist.<ref name="archival"/>
He died on January 15, 1999, aged 85, in Dallas.<ref name="archival"/><ref name="tamu"/>
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