Marcus Whiffen papers(1959–1981)

• MS 1991.9
• 5 cubic feet

Manuscript copies of Marcus Whiffen’s Eighteenth-century houses of Williamsburg. Includes 3 versions from 1959 and 1981 with some annotations. Also includes research files with photographs, postcards, and some notes on Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes material on the George Wythe house, the Powder Magazine, Raleigh Tavern, the Ludwell-Paradise house, Duke of Gloucester Street, and other Williamsburg locations.

Marcus Whiffen was born in Herefordshire, England, in 1916. He graduated BA at the University of Cambridge in 1937 and completed his MA at the same institution in 1946. The career in which he established an international reputation as a scholar in the field of architectural history began on the staff of Architect & Building News (London) in 1937. From 1946–1952, he was Assistant Editor for the Architectural Review (London). After arriving in the United States in 1952, he held lecturer positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then at the University of Texas before becoming Architectural Historian at Colonial Williamsburg (1954–1959). Professor Whiffen was associated with Arizona State University in various positions from 1960 until his death in February, 2002.