Résumé

Designer, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1952-1954.

Lieutenant, US Navy, c. 1956. He likely first entered the US Navy on 10/12/1951 during the Korean War. On 06/16/1956 he worked as a Lieutenant, Junior Grade. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors, accessed 03/03/2025.)

Staff Architect, Lumber Dealers Research Council, Washington DC, 1957-1960.

Principal, L. S. Higgins, A. I.A., and Associates, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1960-1972.

Partner, Higgins, McClarty and Braund, PS, Incorporated, Architects, Bellevue, WA, 1973-1975. This firm was formed when two firms merged, L. S. Higgins & Associates, and the McClarty Associates, Architects in 1973. In that year it had its office at 16301 NE 8th Street, Bellevue, WA. 98008. (See "Notices," Progressive Architecture, vol. LIV, no. 3, 03/1973, p. 138.)

Partner, Higgins, McClarty and Johnson, PS, Incorporated, Architects,Bellevue, WA, c. 1975-1978. This firm was also located at 16301 NE 8th Street, Bellevue, WA. 98008 in 1978.

Professional Activities

Member, King County Board of Realtors, Environmental Awards Jury, Seattle, WA, 1975.

College

B.Arch., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1954. At the University of Illinois, Higgins belonged to the Star and Scroll, Gargoyle, Phi Eta Sigma, Pierrots, Illini Union Fine Arts Committee (in year 3), University Theatre Cast (years 1 and 2). He participated in Honors Day (years 1 and 2). He was a member of the Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity.

College Awards

Recipient, University of Illinois Scholarship Key, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1954.

Relocation

Laurence Stockton Higgins was born in Summit, NJ, on 08/11/1931.

Higgins attended the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, IL, between about 1950 and 1954. At age 18, lived in the Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity House at the University of Illinois. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Champaign, Champaign, Illinois; Roll: 448; Page: 83; Enumeration District: 10-39, accessed 03/03/2025.)

Parents

His mother was Rae Emily Turner (born 09/26/1910 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada-d. 12/13/1966 in Bainbridge Island, WA), his father, William Stockton Higgins.

Rae's mother was Rosena Isabel Campbell (born 02/10/1885 in Perth, ON, Canada), and her father Bertram J. Turner (born 05/16/1883 in Coburg, ON, Canada). Bertram migrated from Canada to the US on 06/15/1915, and worked as an accountant in Los Angeles, CA, when he applied for US citizenship on 02/20/1922. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (Nara); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records of the U.s. District Court For the Southern District of California, Central Division (Los Angeles), 1887-1940; Microfilm Roll: 10; Microfilm Serial: M1524, accessed 03/03/2025.) The family had moved to Albany, NY, by 1941. (See Albany, New York, City Directory, 1941, p. 481.)

On 02/20/1922, when he applied for US naturalization, Turner and his family resided at 4947 Pasadena Avenue Terrace, Los Angeles, CA.

Biographical Notes

Up until 03/03/2025, PCAD misspelled the architect's first name as "Lawrence."