Samuel Eldon Homsey
American architect, 1904–1994
During World War II Homsey served as a Navy commander in the office of research and inventions for the Naval Reserve (1942–1946). He also served as an architectural critic at M.I.T., Cornell University, the University of Virginia, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He was vice-president of the American Institute of Architects from 1965 to 1967. Public service included stints on the New Castle County Regional Planning Commission (1948–1959), the New Castle County Zoning Commission (1952–1957), Wilmington Board of Parks, and the Delaware State Planning Council.
Homsey (with G. Morris Whiteside) designed the original Delaware Art Center (predecessor to the Delaware Art Museum) building, which opened in 1938 on Kentmere Parkway. In addition, Homsey painted watercolors and exhibited at the museum, including in a four-person show in 1966.
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American landscape architect, 1884–1965
American painter, illustrator, 1887–1961
American painter and etcher, 1864–1940
American painter and draftsman, 1738–1820, active in Great Britain
American artist, 1874–1959, born in England