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Walter Ross Baumes Willcox (1869-1947), usually known as W. R. B. Willcox, was an American architect and educator of Vermont and Oregon.

Life and career
Walter R. B. Willcox was born in 1869 in Burlington, Vermont. After some training in an architect's office, he attended the architecture school of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At the end of his education he returned to Burlington, where he established an architect's practice. In 1907 he and an associate, William J. Sayward, moved from Vermont to Seattle.

In 1922 Willcox was selected to lead the recently established architectural program at the University of Oregon in Eugene, at which point he gave up his Seattle practice.

Architectural works

 * House for John W. McGeary, Burlington, Vermont (1896)
 * House for Charles P. Smith, Burlington, Vermont (1897)
 * Wells-Richardson Printing Office, Burlington, Vermont (1897)
 * Edmunds High School (former), Burlington, Vermont (1898-1900)
 * Offices for Dr. W. H. Englesby and W. R. B. Willcox, Burlington, Vermont (1899)
 * House for W. R. B. Willcox, Burlington, Vermont (1900)
 * Burlington Savings Bank Building, Burlington, Vermont (1900)
 * Welden National Bank Building, St. Albans, Vermont (1900)
 * Masonic Temple, Rutland, Vermont (1901)
 * Adams School (former), Burlington, Vermont (1902)
 * Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, Vermont (1902-03, burned)
 * Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vermont (1902-04, NRHP-listed 1976)
 * House for Moses P. Perley, Enosburg Falls, Vermont (1903, NRHP-listed 2020)
 * Richmond Congregational Church, Richmond, Vermont (1903, NRHP-listed 2001)
 * John Dewey Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (1904-05)
 * Extension of the First Congregational Church, Burlington, Vermont (1904)
 * H. O. Wheeler School (former), Burlington, Vermont (1904)
 * Memorial Baptist Church, Middlebury, Vermont (1905)
 * Wilder Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (1905)
 * Enosburg Falls School, Enosburg Falls, Vermont (1907)
 * Arboretum Sewer Trestle, Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington (1910-11, NRHP-listed 1982)
 * House for Henry H. Wolfe, Seattle, Washington (1910)
 * Leamington Hotel and Apartments, Seattle, Washington (1915-16, NRHP-listed 1994)
 * First Congregational Church, Eugene, Oregon (1925, NRHP-listed 1980)


 * Cathedral School, Burlington, Vermont (1904, demolished)


 * Eaton Apartments, Seattle, Washington (1908-09, demolished)
 * Firmin Michel Roast Beef Corporation Pavilion, Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington (1909, temporary building)


 * House for Levi P. Smith, Burlington, Vermont (1914)


 * House for LeRoy D. Lewis, The Highlands, Shoreline, Washington (1914, altered)