jr Robert Clossen Spencer

(b Milwaukee, WI, 13 April 1864; d Tucson, AZ, 9 Sept 1953). American architect and writer. He received his architectural education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1886-8), and worked for Wheelright & Haven and for Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, both in Boston. After visiting Europe as recipient of the Rotch Traveling Fellowship, he returned to work at Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge in 1893 and was sent to their office in Chicago, where he went into private practice in 1894. In 1905 he formed a partnership with Horace S. Powers (1872-1928) that lasted until 1923; he subsequently taught architecture at Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical, Stillwater, and at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

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