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Born: 4/5/1845, Died: 7/24/1933 Henry A. Macomb was born in Ft. Hamilton, NY, to U. S. Navy officer William H. Macomb and Mary Eliza (Stanton) Macomb. He attended the Brooklyn College and Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, NY, until 1863, but left to join the Civil War as part of the U.S. Navy. In that capacity he was involved in action at the close of the war. by 1867 Macomb was in Philadelphia, employed as a draftsman for James H. Windrim, with whom he remained until 1876. By 1876 he had become part of the new firm of Wilson Bros. & Co. and rose from chief draftsman to principal assistant architect, finally becoming a partner in 1882 and remaining with the office until the firm dissolved in 1899. In 1899 he established a brief partnership with Louis L. Calvert, but Calvert withdrew from the office in 1901 (and subsequently disappeared from the Philadelphia city directories). From 1901 until his retirement in 1916, Macomb chiefly practiced independently, only forming brief associations with other architects such as Arthur Truscott, Robert E. Peterson, and Charles M. Burns, whom he succeeded in at least one ecclesiastical project in Kansas.Since Macomb resided in Merchantville, NJ, throughout most of his Philadelphia career, it is not surprising to find that buildings attributed to his firm are located chiefly in New Jersey. Macomb became a fellow of the AIA in 1888 and requested emeritus status in 1915 at the age of 70.
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