James Murray Webb (1908-2000)

Name

Webb, James Murray

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    AIA notified of decease 1/12/2000
Occupation:    American architect
Location (state):    Chapel Hill, NC

This record has not been verified for accuracy.

AIA Affiliation

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1952-decease

Biographical Sources

American Architects Directories:
Biographical listing in 1956 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1962 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1970 American Architects Directory
Biographical Directories:
Entry in the NC Architects/Designers section of NC Modernist Houses web site http://www.ncmodernist.org/architects.html
Biographical Information:
Contributed by NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center:
James Murray Webb was born in 1908 and died in 2000. In 1947, he joined the new City and Regional Planning School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and he served on the faculty for thirty years. He and his brother, John Bruce Webb, maintained an architectural practice in Chapel Hill, and they designed a number of modernist houses and other buildings in the area.

Related Records

Archival Holdings

The American Institute of Architects Archives
      Membership file may contain membership application, related correspondence. Contact the AIA Archives at archives@aia.org for further information.
NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center
MC 00102 James Webb Papers, 1909 - 1999
The collection contains the business and design records from Webb's architectural firm, as well as his personal papers. The major groupings of records are Project Files, Business Files, Personal Files, and Miscellaneous Materials.
Link to online finding aid: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00102/

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