Background
Newcomer was born on August 23, 1867, in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, to Abram Newcomer, of Swiss-English ancestry, and Sarah Darlington, of English ancestry.
Newcomer was born on August 23, 1867, in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, to Abram Newcomer, of Swiss-English ancestry, and Sarah Darlington, of English ancestry.
He was educated at an architecture school in Kansas and also at Cornell University.
After about fifteen years as an architect for the federal government, Newcomer settled in Charleston, South Carolina in about 1906. At the time of his death on December 30, 1931, in Charleston, South Carolina, he was called the "dean of Charleston architects." He is buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. Notable projects of his include the following:
Communicative Disorders Franke warehouses and offices (1908) (177 Church Street)
332 King Saint (1909) (expansion and remodel)
334 King Saint (1909) (expansion and remodel)
166 1/2 Wentworth Saint (1909)
198 Calhoun Saint (1909) (no longer extant)
156 Wentworth Saint (1910) (alterations and addition)
Resident Advisor Kinloch Home for Nurses (1910) (Calhoun Street)
G.G. Creighton Residence, 52 Rutledge Avenue (1912)
Bethel Methodist Episcopal Sunday school (1912) (55 Pitt Street)
Baker Sanatorium (1912) (55 Ashley Avenue)
Liberty & Citizens" Bank (1914) (253 King Street)
209 Meeting Saint, Charleston (1914)
213 Meeting Saint, Charleston (1914)
Memorial Baptist Church (1915) (981 King Street)
The Saint Margaret"s Home (10 Street Margaret Street)
Sottile-Cadillac Company garage (255-263 Meeting Street) (1919)
J.M. Connelley Memorial Chapel (313 Meeting Street)
South Atlantic Mortgage Company building, 71 Broad Saint (1929)
Doctor J. Sumter Rhame house (1931) (65 South Battery)
Saint Paul"s school, Meggett, South Carolina
Atlantic National Bank (515 King Street)
Evening Post building (134 Meeting Street) (destroyed in fire in 1979)
807 Rutledge Avenue., Charleston
Warren Halsey Dunning house (419 West Carolina Avenue Summerville, South Carolina).