Truman Leo
Newberry Jr.

(1933– )

Newberry grew up in Rockingham NC and moved to Raleigh in 1948. He was 16 years old in the audience when Frank Lloyd Wright spoke in Raleigh in May of 1950 at NC State, which he recounts on an episode of USModernist Radio. He graduated from Raleigh's Hugh Morson High School in 1951 and in architecture from the NCSU School of Design in 1956. He interned with W. L. Baumgarten. In 1963, he designed Dick Bell's first floor of the first building at the Water Garden and did a lot of moonlighting there. Newberry worked for five years with Leif Valand, the US Army, classmates Victor Cole and Creighton Jones in Raleigh, 1960-1965 with Carter Williams, during which time he was project architect on Minges Coliseum at ECU and the State Archives building in Raleigh. He designed the original logo for George Smart Architects. After that, he partnered with Sam Ashford, then was on his own until retirement. He was featured in Our State Magazine in March 2025.