| 2. | William Bell Dinsmoor, Jr.  (1.Zillah1) was born on 2 Jul 1923 in New York, New York County, New York; died on 7 Jul 1988 in Athens, Central Athens, Anatolikis Attikís, Greece; was buried after 7 Jul 1988 in First Cemetery, Proto Necrotaphio, Athens, Central Athens, Anatolikis Attikís, Greece. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: KT7F-C5P
- Book Article: A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art
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Dinsmoor, William B[ell,] Jr.
Date born: 1923
Place born: New York, New York
Date died: 1988
Place died: Athens
Classical archaeologist and architectural historian, son of William Bell Dinsmoor, senior. Dinsmoor was born to William Bell Dinsmoor (q.v.) and Zillah F. Pierce (Dinsmoor,1886-1960). His father was an eminent classical era architectural historian. The younger Dinsmoor attended Phillips Exeter Academy and then Columbia University, taking time out for active service in the military during World War II. After service in Indian and China, he returned to Columbia where he received a B.A. in modern languages in 1947. Like his father, he trained in practicing architecture, achieving a Bachelor's (1947) and Master's (1951). Moving to El Paso, Texas, Dinsmoor ran a small business as an architect and engineer. Dinsmoor returned to Greece to assist Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (1906-2003) with her survey of Greek architectural moulding and Carl W. Blegen (1887-1971) on his books on Troy and Pylos. Dinsmoor's archeological experience came working with Oscar Broneer (q.v.), then publishing his find of the temple of Poseidon in Athens. He was the 1962-63 Olivia James Fellow at the Archaeological Institute of America. In 1966 Dinsmoor was appointed Architect for the Agora archeological excavations, a position which he held until his death. In 1971 Dinsmoor began publishing his own research, mostly on Athenian architecture, but also on Corfu and Stobi. He was editing a work of his father's, the Propylaia of Athena, at the time of his death. A work on Athena Sounias, with Homer Thompson (1906-2000), also failed to appear in his lifetime, though Thompson had planned to publish it after Dinsmoor's death.
Dinsmoor's research established the configuration of the entrance way before the Propylaia, a work he published in The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis, volume one, The Predecessors (1980).
Home Country: United States
Sources: [obituaries:] Camp, John McKesson. American Journal of Archaeology 93 (April 1989): 233-4; American School of Classical Studies at Athens Newsletter no.22 (Fall1988):14.
Bibliography: The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis. 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1980; and Camp, John McKesson. Ancient Athenian Building Methods. Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1984.
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William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. was a second generation archeological architect. He spent the last twenty-five years of his life in Greece.
William married Mary Higgins on 4 Sep 1948 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, and was divorced in 1967. Mary (daughter of Clark Freeman Higgins and Margaret Johnston Davidson) was born on 26 Feb 1923 in Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jun 2008 in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas; was buried on 16 Jun 2008 in Memory Gardens of the Valley, Santa Teresa, Dona Ana County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1886 - 1960 (74 years)
M.P. Dinsmoor 
