Benjamin C. Thompson

Benjamin C. Thompson (July 3, 1918 – August 21, 2002) was an American architect.

Thompson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduated from Yale University in 1941, then spent four years in the United States Navy fighting in World War II. After the war he moved to Lexington, Massachusetts, where he participated in the design and creation of Six Moon Hill, a ground-breaking neighborhood of modern houses. Later, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spent the rest of his life.

Thompson was married to Mary Alice Okes, with whom he had 5 children: Deborah, Anthony, Marina, Nicholas, and Benjamin. His second marriage was to Jane Fiske McCullough, a writer and design critic, who handled his public relations and later became a collaborator on certain of his planning projects.