Louis W. Ross

Louis Warren Ross (July 18, 1893 – September 8, 1966) was an American architect from Boston, Massachusetts, perhaps best known for his work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he designed over thirty of the campus buildings there.

Ross was born in Arlington, Massachusetts on July 18, 1893, the third of the five children of Louis Hall Ross and Mable Louisa Rawson. He was the grandson of agriculturalist Warren Winn Rawson and Helen Maria Mair. During his time at the college he was notably active in college sports, having played on the football, baseball, and hockey teams, serving as captain of the latter. He was also a member of the campus "mandolin club" and the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.

After the war, Ross entered the Harvard Graduate School of Architecture in 1921, graduating four years later in 1925. This would be the first of over 20 dormitories that he would design for the university, among other buildings.

Although not as widely known as his campus work, Ross would also design a variety of buildings in the towns of Amherst, Northampton{, Winchester, Needham and Newton{.

Ross moved to Newton in the early 1920s where he met Dorothy M. Pickett; the couple were wed on October 8, 1928. They had two children, a son, Warren R. Ross, and a daughter, Sally L. Pestalozzi. In the last 10 years of his life Ross spent his summers in Rockport, and continued his work up until the age of 72, only a year prior to his death. After what was described as "a brief illness", Louis Warren Ross died on Thursday, September 8, 1966. (1935) Thayer Laboratory (1953, 1956) University Apartments (1949) Van Meter House (1957) Wheeler House (1958)

Other academic buildings Bowen Elementary School, Newton, Massachusetts (1952) East Street School, Amherst, Massachusetts (1936) Jackson Gymnasium, Tufts University (1947) Leeds Elementary School, Northampton, Massachusetts (1953) Winchester High School, Winchester, Massachusetts (1955)