DeNorval Unthank, Jr. FAIA, who transferred from Howard University to become the first black architecture graduate of the University of Oregon, had already designed a dozen or so private residences and several churches in Eugene in partnership with Richard A. Chambers before he began his professional career in the offices of Wilmsen Endicott, where he made partner in 1960. As design principle for the office, he played a significant role in large projects across the state, including the Oregon Capitol Master Plan, the Master Plan and many buildings at Oregon Fairview Hospital & Training Center, the Lane County Courthouse, Central Oregon Community College, dormitories at Southern Oregon University and the University of Oregon, many remarkable high schools, banks, clinics, and office buildings, as well as a municipal railway station in Prineville, OR. In 1968 he collaborated with his brother-in-law, Seattle architect Mel Streeter, to design Liberty Bank, the first black-owned bank in the Pacific Northwest. In 1968 he joined Grant Seder and Otto Poticha in forming Unthank Seder Poticha Architects. They practiced from 1968-1986 and were responsible for many civic, commercial, and residential projects. This firm became Unthank Poticha Waterbury in 1986 and Unthank Waterbury in 1993. In 2017, the University of Oregon named a prominent dormitory Unthank Hall.