John McComb Jr.

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John McComb, Jr. (1763 in New York City, New York, USA) – 1853 in New York City, New York, USA) was an American architect and one of the two designers of Castle Clinton in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park (1808). He also was the architect for the Hamilton Grange in Harlem for Alexander Hamilton (1802) and for New York City Hall (1803).

McComb was also responsible for designing the Old Queens building at Rutgers University (1808), St. John's Chapel of Trinity Church in New York City, and the old Cape Henry Lighthouse at Cape Henry, Virginia, the first lighthouse built by the United States government.