found: The Handbook of Texas Online, April 5, 2016(Barnstone, Howard (1923-1987); Howard Barnstone, architect, was born on March 27, 1923, in Auburn, Maine, the son of Robert C. and Dora (Lempert) Barnstone; he spent his childhood in Auburn and in New York City, then attended Amherst College (1940-1942), Yale College (A.B. 1944), and Yale University (B. Arch. 1948); from 1944 to 1946 he served as a lieutenant, junior grade, in the United States Navy; he moved to Houston in 1948 and remained there for the rest of his life, teaching and practicing architecture; Barnstone joined the faculty of the University of Houston in 1948; he became associate professor of architecture in 1952 and professor in 1958; he taught as a visiting instructor at Yale University (1964) and the University of St. Thomas (1965); he wrote two books on Texas architectural subjects, The Galveston That Was (1966) and The Architecture of John F. Staub, Houston and the South (1979); Barnstone became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1951 and was elected to fellowship in the institute in 1968; he suffered from manic-depressive psychosis and endured periods of severe depression in 1969 and in 1985-1987; as a result of the latter episode, he killed himself, on April 29, 1987, in Houston; he is buried at Forest Park East Cemetery in League City; his papers are deposited at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center of the Houston Public Library)
