Background
George F. Newton was born in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
George F. Newton was born in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
After a preparatory training in Architecture he won the Rotch Traveling Scholarship (the third student to receive that coveted award), with the opportunity of travel and study in Europe for two years. During that time the young man visited the important cities on the continent, and in Paris completed his training at the Atlier Daumet, Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Upon his return to Boston Mr. Newton entered the office of Peabody & Stearns, then the leading architectural firm in the city, where he was employed first as draftsman then became head designer in the office. After leaving there he practiced independently until his retirement, engaged in designing churches and other public buildings, also numerous residences erected in a wide area in New England and New York state. Probably the most noted examples of his work were the First Congregational Church at Wellesley, Mass.; North Persbyterian Church, Buffalo, N. Y.; Music Building at Middlebury College, Vermont , and the Technical School in Newton, Mass., all of them marked by a refinement in design characteristic of his work.
A man of great personal charm, Mr. Newton was not only a gifted and scholarly designer and an architect of ability, but a sympathetic advisor to the young men from architectural schools seeking employment, and he con¬tinued his interest in them through the years
Member Emeritus of the American Institute of Architects form 1930 to 1947.