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Walter Ross Baumes Willcox (1869-1947), usually known as W. R. B. Willcox, was an American architect and educator of Vermont and Oregon.

Life and career

Walter R. B. Willcox was born in 1869 in Burlington, Vermont. After some training in an architect's office, he attended the architecture school of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At the end of his education he returned to Burlington, where he established an architect's practice. In 1907 he and an associate, William J. Sayward, moved from Vermont to Seattle.

In 1922 Willcox was selected to lead the recently established architectural program at the University of Oregon in Eugene, at which point he gave up his Seattle practice.

Legacy

Architectural works

House for John W. McGeary,{{efn|name=Union|A contributing property to the South Union Street Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1988.}} Burlington, Vermont (1896)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/88001946 South Union Street Historic District NRHP Registration Form] (1988)
House for Charles P. Smith,{{efn|name=Willard|A contributing property to the South Willard Street Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1988. Now McDonald Hall of Champlain College.}} Burlington, Vermont (1897)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/88002226 South Willard Street Historic District NRHP Registration Form] (1988)
Wells-Richardson Printing Office,{{efn|name=WR}} Burlington, Vermont (1897)Glenn M. Andres and Curtis B. Johnson, Buildings of Vermont (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014)
Edmunds High School (former),{{efn|name=MainCollege|A contributing property to the Main Street–College Street Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1988.}} Burlington, Vermont (1898-1900)
Offices for Dr. W. H. Englesby and W. R. B. Willcox,{{efn|name=WR|A contributing property to the Wells-Richardson Complex, NRHP-listed in 1979.}} Burlington, Vermont (1899)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/79000221 Wells-Richardson Complex NRHP Registration Form] (1979)
House for W. R. B. Willcox, Burlington, Vermont (1900)
Burlington Savings Bank Building,{{efn|name=WR|A contributing property to the City Hall Park Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1983.}} Burlington, Vermont (1900)
Welden National Bank Building,{{efn|name=Albans|A contributing property to the St. Albans Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1990. Now part of the main office of the Peoples Trust Company.}} St. Albans, Vermont (1900)[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Boston_Home_Journal/QftK8SnldFUC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Boston Home Journal] 56, no. 42 (October 20 1900): 8.
Masonic Temple, Rutland, Vermont (1901)
Adams School (former), Burlington, Vermont (1902)
Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, Vermont (1902-03, burned)
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vermont (1902-04, NRHP-listed 1976)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/76000138 Carnegie Building of the Fletcher Free Library NRHP Registration Form] (1976)
House for Moses P. Perley, Enosburg Falls, Vermont (1903, NRHP-listed 2020)[https://accd.vermont.gov/sites/accdnew/files/documents/HP/Moses%20Perley%20House_final%20draft.pdf Moses P. Perley House NRHP Registration Form] (2020)
Richmond Congregational Church, Richmond, Vermont (1903, NRHP-listed 2001)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/01000326 Richmond Congregational Church NRHP Registration Form] (2001)
John Dewey Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (1904-05)"University of Vermont, Medical Department" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fireproof_Magazine/tvHNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Fireproof Magazine] 9, no. 3 (September 1906): 110-114.
Extension of the First Congregational Church, Burlington, Vermont (1904)
H. O. Wheeler School (former), Burlington, Vermont (1904)
Memorial Baptist Church, Middlebury, Vermont (1905)
Wilder Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (1905)"Horticultural Building at the Massachusetts Agricultural College" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Country_Gentleman/o4cq6v46Dg4C?hl=en&gbpv=0 Country Gentleman] 70, no. 2731 (June 1 1905): 514.
Enosburg Falls School, Enosburg Falls, Vermont (1907)
Arboretum Sewer Trestle, Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington (1910-11, NRHP-listed 1982)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/82004229 Arboretum Sewer Trestle NRHP Registration Form] (1982)
House for Henry H. Wolfe,{{efn|name=Roanoke|A contributing property to the Roanoke Park Historic District, NRHP-listed in 2009.}} Seattle, Washington (1910)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/09000578 Roanoke Park Historic District NRHP Registration Form] (2009)
Leamington Hotel and Apartments,{{efn|name=Leamington|Designed in association with Julian F. Everett.}} Seattle, Washington (1915-16, NRHP-listed 1994)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/94000419 Leamington Hotel and Apartments NRHP Registration Form] (1996)
First Congregational Church, Eugene, Oregon (1925, NRHP-listed 1980)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/80003333 First Congregational Church NRHP Registration Form] (1980)

Cathedral School, Burlington, Vermont (1904, demolished)

Eaton Apartments, Seattle, Washington (1908-09, demolished)"Building News" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Architect_and_Architecture/i7QxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 American Architect] 94, no. 1718 (November 25 1908): 22.
Firmin Michel Roast Beef Corporation Pavilion, Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington (1909, temporary building)

House for Levi P. Smith, Burlington, Vermont (1914)

House for LeRoy D. Lewis, The Highlands, Shoreline, Washington (1914, altered)

Charles H. Alden, "Walter R. B. Willcox, F. A. I. A," [https://usmodernist.org/AJ/AJ-1947-08.pdf Journal of the American Institute of Architects] 8, no. 2 (August 1947): 64-66.