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Herbert H. Swinburne (1912–2001) was an American architect in practice in Philadelphia from 1953 to 1974.

Life and career
Herbert Hillhouse Swinburne was born December 6, 1912 in Los Angeles, and grew up in Winnemucca, Nevada. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a B.Arch in 1934. In 1935 he was appointed supervising architect of the Nevada highway department, an office he filled until 1941. In 1942 he returned east, working for Tuttle, Seelye, Place & Raymond in New York City on large-scale war work. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1945. After the war he went to work with architect Charles H. Bauer Jr. in Newark, New Jersey, and in 1949 returned to Philadelphia to work with architect James A. Nolen Jr. In 1953 they formed a partnership, known as Nolen & Swinburne, which would become well known for their large institutional building and master planning projects. The firm was renamed Nolen–Swinburne & Associates in 1962 and upon the admission of Victor H. Kusch to the partnership in 1971 it was renamed the Nolen & Swinburne Partnership. The firm was dissolved in 1974, when both Nolen and Swinburne retired from practice.

Major works completed by Nolen and Swinburne include master plans for Temple University in 1954 and 1966 and a master plan for Drexel University in 1964. In association with others they were associated with the design of the Pennsylvania State Office Building in Philadelphia and the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building and the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C.

Swinburne's public service began in 1964 when he was appointed to an advisory panel of the building research division of the National Bureau of Standards. From 1965 to 1967 he was a member of the advisory commission on construction to the Governor of Pennsylvania's Commission on Education, from 1966 to 1967 a member of the National Design Review Panel of the United States Navy, from 1966 to 1976 a member of the building research advisory board of the National Academy of Design and from 1967 to 1969 a member of the national advisory committee for the General Services Administration. In 1976 he was appointed to the first board of directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences.

Swinburne joined the American Institute of Architects in 1947 as part of the Philadelphia chapter. In 1957 he was appointed to the committee on research for architecture, and became its chair in 1960. In 1961 he was elected a Fellow.

Personal life
Swinburne was married in 1937. He died June 29, 2001 in Philadelphia.

Architectural works

 * Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School, 1345 Sumneytown Pike, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania (1955)
 * Pennsylvania State Office Building (former), 1400 Spring Garden St, Philadelphia (1957–58, NRHP 2010)
 * Philadelphia Country Club, 1601 Spring Mill Rd, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania (1957)
 * Keiss Library, Gwynedd Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania (1959)
 * Johnson Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia (1960–61)
 * Mount Saint Joseph Academy, 120 W Wissahickon Ave, Flourtown, Pennsylvania (1961)
 * McAuley Center, Gwynedd Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania (1963)
 * St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, 66 Levittown Pkwy, Levittown, Pennsylvania (1965)
 * Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, 451 7th St SW, Washington, D.C. (1965–68, NRHP 2008)
 * Paley Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia (1966)
 * Daylesford Abbey, 220 S Valley Rd, Paoli, Pennsylvania (1966)
 * Johnson Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia (1966–67)
 * McGonigle Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia (1967–69)
 * Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania (1968)
 * Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church, 3050 Walton Rd, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania (1969–71)
 * Collier Hall of Science, Moravian University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1971)
 * Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. (1972–77)
 * Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1973)