Rexford G. Newcomb (April 24, 1886 – March 16, 1968) was an American architectural historian.
[1] He married Ruth Bergen on October 24, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas; they had three children.
[2] After stints teaching at the Long Beach Polytechnic High School and Long Beach Evening High School, University of Southern California and Texas A&M University,[1] Newcomb returned to the University of Illinois as a faculty member in 1918.
[8] His book Architecture of the Old Northwest Territory was the 1950 winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award.
[9] Newcomb's collected papers are held by the University of Illinois library system.