William E. Higginbotham (1858-4/7/1923) Detroit Michigan

Member of the firm of Malcomson & Higginbotham, for many years specialists in school work. Born and educated in Detroit, he entered the architectural office of J.V. Smith at the age of nineteen, and after supplementary training and experience, joined William G. Malcomson in partnership in 1890. Five years later he was appointed Consulting Architect of the City School Board, and during his practice maintained a close association with the Board.

One of the firm's first large commissions was for the Central High School in Detroit, built in 1894, now Wayne University, and in the ensuing years the partners designed more than three-fourths of the city schools erected prior to 1923. Among the most important were buildings for the Western High, 1897, Eastern High, 1909, Northwestern High School, 1911, Northern High, 1914, Southeastern High School, 1915, Southwestern High, 1920, Cass Technical High School, 1920, and the Roosevelt group of schools, won in a competition, 1922. In addition, the firm was chosen to design the Central High School in Flint, Michigan, 1921, and in Detroit, Malcomson & Higginbotham were architects of the Hudson and Buhl Memorial at Harper Hospital, 1913, and in 1914 completed the Henry Ford Hospital.

He died in Atlanta Georgia at the age of sixty-five.