Partner, Anderson and Beckwith, Architects, Cambridge, MA, 1937-1960s; Beckwith had two-and-a-half years of wartime service during World War II, serving as the Executive Officer of the Princeton University Station of the National Defense Research Committee. The firm became known as "Anderson Beckwith and Haible" by c. 1962. The firms with which Beckwith was associated designed 11 buildings on MIT's Cambridge, MA, Campus.

He taught at MIT from 1934-1968; Assistant Professor, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1934-1939; Associate Professor, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1939-1947; Director of Exhibitions, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1946; Professor of Architecture, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1947-1968; and served as Acting Head of the Department of Architecture in 1956-57. He retired from MIT in 1968.

President, National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB).

executive officer of the Princeton University Station of the National Defense Research Committee.

S.B., Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1923-1926; M.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1927.

Beckwith married Elizabeth McMillin in 1945.

With Elizabeth, they had one daughter, Suzanne B. Bynum, who, at the time of Herbert Beckwith's death in 1997, lived in Cambridge, MA.

Beckwith worked in various capacities with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

• Midland, MI (Architect's Birth)
  Midland, MI

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• Kingston, MA (Architect's Death)
  Kingston, MA

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