{{short description|American architect (1822–1898)}} {{Infobox architect |name=Levi Newcomb |image= |parents = |nationality= |birth_date= February 8, 1822 |birth_place= Scituate, Massachusetts, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1898|10|1|1822|2|8}} |death_place= Scituate, Massachusetts, U.S. |significant_buildings= |significant_projects= |awards= }}
'''Levi Newcomb''' (February 8, 1822 – October 1, 1898) was an American architect, active in Boston in the mid-to-late 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Levi Newcomb |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124864388 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=www.wikidata.org |language=en}}</ref>
== Early life == Newcomb was born in 1822 in Scituate, Massachusetts, to Levi Newcomb Sr. and Joan Studley.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3AbAQAAMAAJ&dq=Levi+Newcomb+born+1822&pg=PA323 |title=Andrew Newcomb, 1618-1686, and His Descendants |date=1923 |publisher=Priv. print. for the author by the Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company |pages=323 |language=en}}</ref> His brother, George Lewis Newcomb, became a noted physician in Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qd5EML7tYYC&dq=Levi+Newcomb+born+1822&pg=PA385 |title=Biographical Review: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Plymouth County, Massachusetts ... |date=1897 |publisher=Biographical Review Publishing Company |pages=385 |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == After spending his early years at sea,<ref>''Bethuel Merritt Newcomb, Andrew Newcomb, 1618–1686, and his descendants'' (1923), p. 556</ref> Newcomb spent much of his life working as an architect in Boston, Massachusetts, with an office 12 West Street in 1869.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4EqAAAAYAAJ&dq=Levi+Newcomb+architect&pg=PA456 |title=The Boston Directory |date=1869 |publisher=George Adams |pages=456 |language=en}}</ref> He designed educational buildings, churches and homes. He designed Felton Hall, at Harvard University, in partnership with his son,<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.uvmalumnihouse.com/s/1690/alumni-h/interior.aspx?sid=1690&gid=2&pgid=1100 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=www.uvmalumnihouse.com |language=en}}</ref> Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb,<ref>''American Architect and Building News'', October 28, 1898</ref><ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/9dbcaa40-1f55-4c67-b427-55c4a3edfc83 National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form] – National Park Service, August 7, 1979</ref> as Levi Newcomb & Son.<ref name=":1">[https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/b4961e89-fc18-4ee7-8c88-4dbffe8f9740 "India Street Historic District"] – City of Portland, Maine</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Southworth |first1=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9JPAAAAMAAJ&q=Levi+Newcomb+architect |title=The A.I.A. Guide to Boston |last2=Southworth |first2=Susan |date=1984 |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |isbn=978-0-87106-936-8 |pages=125 |language=en}}</ref> He also built dormitories at Tufts University<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://archives.tufts.edu/agents/corporate_entities/1498 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=archives.tufts.edu}}</ref><ref>[https://dl.tufts.edu/teiviewer/parent/f1881x54h/chapter/W00005 Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History] – Tufts Digital Library</ref> and Dartmouth College, in addition to building the station of the Boston and Lowell Railroad on Causeway Street in Boston.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYlMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Levi+Newcomb+architect&pg=RA3-PA10 |title=American Architect |date=1898 |publisher=American Architect |pages=10 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1867, he assisted with the rebuilding of Portland, Maine, after its great fire the previous year, including designing the North School,<ref name=":1" /> which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the now-demolished First Baptist Church on Congress Street.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Northeast view from City Hall, Portland, 1887 |url=https://www.mainememory.net/record/148235 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Maine Memory Network |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Newcomb married twice. His first wife, Sarah Ann Ball, died in 1846, two years after their marriage. He then married Phoebe Ann Edwards.<ref name="Famous2">{{cite news |date=November 11, 1923 |title=Famous Architect Dead Here |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/258500839/?terms=Edgar+Allen+Poe+Newcomb |access-date=November 24, 2017 |work=The Honolulu Advertiser |page=1, col. 5{{Subscription required |via=Newspapers.com}}}}</ref>
== Death == Newcomb died in 1898, aged 76.<ref name=":0" /> He was interred in Groveland Cemetery in Scituate, alongside his wife.
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